Nature and Nurture

‘A Jew, however poor, if he had ten sons would put them all to letters, not for gain, as the Christians do, but for the understanding of God’s law—and not only his sons, but his daughters.’

Pierre Abelard (c. 1135)

A couple thousand years of this, and we have the results that we are seeing.

Moral of the story: everything worth having takes a lot of patient, oft-repeated effort.

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