After all "the purpose of education is to replace an
empty mind with an open one."

'It's good to be open-minded Foxy, just don't let your mind be so open that your brain falls out'.

School (Schule) was never about specifically about education, but largely about indoctrination instead.

Watch and find out for yourself how it originated.

The Capitalist Way? Our School’s Connections to Nazi Germany
http://youtu.be/lUL8gdJx9qc

Here's some more information about boomerangs:

http://kullillaart.com.au/dreamtime-stories/The-Boomerang#

"The Australian boomerangs are ones that return to you.
The other throwing sticks do not."

That's just not true. Returning throwing sticks have been found in quite a few parts of the world, from Egypt to the Americas.

"They are recognized as an Australian invention the world
over."

That's just not true. Its something that the ignorant would say. Its is known that returning boomerangs existed elsewhere. They may have been independently invented in Australia but that doesn't mean they weren't independently invented elsewhere as well.

Foxy then provides a link to the National Museum to support her case. Its the exact same link Josephus provided yesterday which Foxy obviously didn't check while simultaneously telling Josephus he was wrong. What was I saying about intellectual curiosity?

That the boomerang is best known as being associated with the Australian aboriginal is solely due to the fact that they were the last to use it, not provably the first. So in recent memory, aboriginals continued to use this stone age tool, while all others had long since moved on to more sophisticated weapons.

This is rather informative:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070630231305/http://www.rediboom.com/englisch/geschich/

Hi Foxy,

New program on the ABC; 'FIRST WEAPONS'

For countless millennia, the First Australians have wielded their knowledge, dexterity, and scientific understanding to devise weapons for hunting, survival, and warfare.
ABC’s latest series, ‘First Weapons’, hosted by Phil Breslin, embarks on an adventurous quest to unveil the science and genius behind Australia’s oldest, most innovative, and deadliest arsenal.

This is rather informative:

http://australian.museum/blog/science/aboriginal-boomerangs-tutankhamun/#

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Dear Armchair Critic,

" An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a
worthwhile thought in it."

A Voice to Parliament is consistent with international
human rights standards and would provide for better human
rights protections by promoting equality and self-determination
for First Nations People. It IS right and fair that Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander People participate in decisions which
affect them.

The following link is another informative one:

http://theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/27/a-majority-of-first-nations-people-support-the-voice-why-dont-non-indigenous-australians-believe-them@

Hi AC,

"School (Schule) was never about specifically about education, but largely about indoctrination instead."

Did you not have the privilege and pleasure of attending a Catholic boys school in the 60's and 70's. Where those wonderful Brothers and Fathers were so understanding and tolerant, kindness personified! Oh well, humm, not when they were bonking the little tikes that is. Outside of that, it was all lovey-dovey with the good ole' fellas of Catholicism. AND they are still in business today. Catholic priests and brothers are working o/t buggering children in secret, and certainly in the third world Catholic countries of Africa, Asia and South America.