Letters to the Editor
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Training vs. Education
Thanks for the excellent comments on the "lessons" for Bush from the necons.
I find the distinction between training and education useful. Training is imparted, usually at a corporate session, and what is learned decreases over time. Consider a graph which starts out at a high level and goes down over time.
In contrast, education provides concepts and skills to continue learning as you do the work. Consider a graph which starts out low but increases over time.
It sounds like Bush got another training session from his neocon luminaries. The problem is that the training does not work in the real world. So he needs refresher courses to keep him on track and to help him deny the external reality.
At least in the usual corporate training sessions, such as leadership training, they don't deny reality. They usually have platitudes to make it seem that people are dealing with real issues, but they don't explicitly deny reality. They may be misguided, and use their quarterly results and other numbers as a seeming reality, but in Bush's case he relies on a right wing media to provide propoganda to reinforce his agenda and assure him that part of the world is still on board.