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Megan Summers
Golden Lake
Canada

Impact Entrepreneurship Group

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Is the internet, not formal education, the new great equalizer?

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery. – Horace Mann

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Topics: Internet education equality

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M.A. Lucas-Green
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Oct 7 2011: Knowledge is no longer an immutable solid, it has been liquified. It is actively moving in all the currents of society itself. - John Dewey, The School and Society, 1900
- Rafael Eufrasio 200+
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  Oct 7 2011: As of 2011, it's been vaporized already!!!
  - Kevin Taylor
    
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    Oct 7 2011: If it's been vaporized, does that mean it's harder to "grasp"?
    
    har har har ;)

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