Tag: High school

  • Etymology of the word idiot – care of Jim Hightower

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    Recounting his speech earlier this month to the Denison (Texas) High School Class of 2013, Hightower recently wrote: “Idiotes were not people with low-watt brains, but individuals who cared only about themselves, refusing to participate in public efforts to benefit the larger community – the common good. The Greeks, I told the students, considered such…