UPDATE: As the originally linked YouTube channel has been silenced, here are other sources of the videos: Part 1, Part 2
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When asked by a young man if he should seek to marry, Socrates answered him:
“By all means marry: if you get a good wife, you will be happy; if you get a bad one, you will become a philosopher.”
UPDATE: As the originally linked YouTube channel has been silenced, here are other sources of the videos: Part 1, Part 2
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The Oracle of Delphi called Socrates 'the wisest man' because he said:
"I know I know nothing!"
Of course, he only knew this because his wife, Xanthippe, told him so.
Every day!
March 6, 2011 at 15:55
Superb videos, Xanthippa. Thanks (translation – I’ve ripped them off for a post on my blog).
You know you hate political correctness and the postmodern bullcrap that has fostered it but this guy really illustrates just how bad things have gotten. When post-Stalin Soviet block education compares favourably with the Western pomo system it’s very bad indeed.
Also it’s good to see that Dr. Trifkovic has George Soros and his Open Society Institute pegged for the evil blights they are.
Xanthippa says:
Yes, that is true.
When I came here from the then ‘Soviet Block’….
I had left after grade 7, spent most of grade 8 without going to school, as I was in a refugee camp, but, the math and science I had learned before the end of grade 7 was not caught up to by the Canadian education system until about 1/2 way through high-school….and I went (grades 3-7) to a school that specialized in teaching languages at the expense of ‘lightening’ the math/science curriculum.
It is sad to hear that the dumbing down of the formerly good education systems there by the cultural marxists has begun…