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🗓️ 26 February 2018
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0:00.0 | As John Henry Clark said, |
0:02.5 | powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress. |
0:08.3 | Because once you are truly educated, |
0:11.2 | you will not ask for power, you will take it. |
0:14.9 | I have the chills right now, |
0:16.9 | and I want everyone listening to this to really think about that. |
0:20.7 | Power is not given, it is assumed. |
0:23.3 | If you want something in your life, |
0:25.3 | you've got to become capable of taking it. |
0:28.1 | And that's the whole point behind getting educated. |
0:30.7 | Don't think about education as flipping through a bunch of books. |
0:34.6 | Getting educated is about gaining knowledge, |
0:37.0 | knowledge that has utility, |
0:38.8 | knowledge that can be put to use in service of something. |
0:42.6 | But you've got to know what that in service of is. |
0:45.0 | What are you trying to do? |
0:46.2 | Why are you trying to educate yourself? |
0:48.1 | And are you waiting? |
0:49.4 | Are you asking politely if you can be educated? |
0:52.3 | Or are you grabbing the things that you need |
0:54.3 | in order to learn and insisting of yourself? |
0:58.9 | Insisting of yourself that you gain that knowledge, |
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