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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!DIALix!tillage!gil
- From: gil@tillage.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Education and the Environment by Gregory A. Smith
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- Message-ID: <726298268snx@tillage.DIALix.oz.au>
- References: <JMC.93Jan5001131@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jan 93 05:31:08 GMT
- Organization: STAFF STRATEGIES - Anthropologists & Training Agents
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- In article <JMC.93Jan5001131@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
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- >
- > Gil says:
- >
- > Under the Western European tradition derived from Mosaic
- > Christianity and explicitly intended to engender loyalty to
- > the status quo. The etymology of the word "education" arises
- > from "to the Duke".
- >
- > Not quite. Webster says,
- .
- .
- .
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- > They have similar Latin roots, but neither is a descendant of the other.
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- My own source was:
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- Klein E. 1967
- A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
- Amsterdam: Elsevier
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- Some dispute among scholars of such things, perhaps, although I find
- the link a compelling one worth raising periodically.
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- I have already been mailed on my Latin, BTW. The translation should be
- "from (ex) the Duke", apparently.
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- Gil
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