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My Grandfather told my Dad when he was a kid and he told me the same thing.. "They can take everything you have away from you, but they can not take away the knowledge in your head."

My GD did not have the opportunity to have an education but he saw that education was the key to having the opportunity for success in whatever form it might take.

At this juncture in time even Buffet is standing naked in the street. The only thing that matters now to the powers that be is that the institutions survive so that the structure of society remains intact and is at least fairly stable. Everything else is inconsequential...they do not care..