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Monday, June 30, 2003

Environmental correctness:

So enticing it is to have a Native American be an environmental mentor that people will make one up if they can't find one. The best example is a letter supposedly written by Chief Seattle in the mid-19th century, but actually written by a screenwriter for a TV show and passed off as authentic.

When it comes to environmentalism, the motto seems to be, "Never let the truth get in the way of the message."

http://www.newsweek.com/id/125696
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Gabriel 11:34 PM

More on education...

You always hear people complaining about how "these kids today don't learn anything in school." Just a bunch of old geezers complaining, right? Well, not quite.

Enrollment in high school algebra declined by more than a factor of two during the first half of the 20th century, from about 57% to less than 25%. I wonder what it is now? More similar, dismaying statistics in this article:
http://www.csun.edu/~vcmth00m/AHistory.html
Gabriel 10:46 PM