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I was waiting for someone else to respond to
Bernard Cleyet's (sp?) assertion that people get what they deserve as a reason
not to involve the Federal government. That sounds more like an
ideological position than a contribution from someone committed to our
profession.
John Clement made some interesting proposals along
this line but no one responded directly.
So here are some possible modest proposals for
Congress:
# Require all state textbook criteria to
conform to NSF-established guidelines.
# Abolish all State textbook
commissions.
# Require that one person of standing in
their profession take public responsibility for each science text from the first
grade level up.
# Require that the science textbook committee
of each State textbook commission contain a Ph.D. physicist, chemist and
biologist.
# Abolish textbooks.
# Pass a resolution specifying that the
children of each state shall get what they deserve, the details to be decided by
Addison Wesley and Prentice Hall in consultation with the Moral
Majority.
8-)
Chris
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Christopher A. Horton, Ph.D.
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"Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to
come, when memory of us will have been effaced. Our universe is a sorry
little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate ...
Nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all."
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