OT: (NOT A JOKE) Be careful what you wish for....

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010, Richard Kreiss wrote:
>>From my non-technical brother.
>
>This is interesting reading.
>
>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11263559

That makes excellent points.  I don't know my wife's mobile phone
number as it's on speed dial on my phone.

One of the points I found very good is the section on industrial
thinking.  This ties in directly with an excellent book I'm
reading now by John Taylor Gatto, ``The Underground History of
American Education'' which goes into the primary motivation
behind government schools -- to turn most children into effective
cogs in the industrial and war machines of the state (think the
``education'' of the puppies by the pigs in Orwell's ``Animal
Farm'').

If the UK article is correct about actual changes in the brain,
and it's applicable to government schooling, that's really
depressing.

Bill
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