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Created on 2007-04-01 00:21:17 (#12621863), last updated 2009-11-26
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Basic Info BioIn modern times, we have foolishly insisted on a separation between the Warriors and the Savants. Universities are full of savants who will babble endlessly about society, but never defend it. Militaries are full of warriors who will babble endlessly about defending their society, but not understand it. Actually, in modern America, the balance is tilted more in favor of the Soldier. We have a highly educated military, with more Savants in the U.S. Army than there are Warriors in universities (can you say "effete ivory tower pseudointellectual," boys and girls?).
It was not always such. Leaders were expected to lead in war and peace; the true citizen expected to understand the body politic and be prepared to defend it. Some shining examples:
SOCRATES was a hoplite before he was a philosopher
WALTER REED was a battalion surgeon before he was a researcher
JOHN MCCRAE was an artilleryman before he was a doctor and a poet
JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN was a college professor before he was soldier
It was not always such. Leaders were expected to lead in war and peace; the true citizen expected to understand the body politic and be prepared to defend it. Some shining examples:
SOCRATES was a hoplite before he was a philosopher
WALTER REED was a battalion surgeon before he was a researcher
JOHN MCCRAE was an artilleryman before he was a doctor and a poet
JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN was a college professor before he was soldier
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P.S. 191 - Mayflower School - Queens, NY (1961 - 1967)Martin Van Buren High School - Queens, NY (1971 - 1973)
Columbia University, Columbia College - New York, NY (1973 - 1977)
New York Medical College - Valhalla, NY (1977 - 1981)
McGill University - Montréal, QC, Canada (1989 - 1992)
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