Our assignment: To masticate and to swallow

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Our assignment: To masticate and to swallow

It begins with our mother; it is continued by our teachers, and our college professors. Our intellectual food is prepared, cut into bit size portions, and spooned into our mouth. All we have had to do is to masticate and to swallow.

When our schools days are over we must learn to prepare our own intellectual food or we end our existence as an intellectual being striving to be all we can be. We become easy marks for spinners (ideologues) to fill the vacuum with their particular views.