You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.

McDonalds in Tokyo is a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor.

Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting.

Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society.

The last thing a scientist would do is cling to a map because he inherited it from his grandfather, or because it was used by George Washington or Abraham Lincoln.

You just don't know anything unless you can write it. Sure you can argue things out in your own head and bring them out at parties, but in order to argue anything thoroughly, you must be able to put it down on paper.

Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.