>WASHINGTON (AP) - If today's students want to understand how scientists
mapped the >human genetic code, they won't get much help from their high
school textbooks, a group >of scientists and educators said Tuesday.
Do high school kids have a need to know about DNA sequencing? They have a
need to know how to do arithmatic, read, write, comprehend what they
read, and come to rational conclusions. They need to know some basic
history and they are not being taught any of this stuff.
The "information revolution" is the biggest scam of the 20/21 cent. The
biggest information revolution in history was free public libraries. 90%
of the library system is used for entertainment and so is 90% of on line
computer time. What good is written information to people who can't read,
write, or think?
I am convinced the push to give "poor" people web access is nothing more
than a method of getting rid of obsolete chips and boards at public
expense.
Yesterday a radio guru was complaining that a higher percentage of "poor"
children have TV sets and electronic games in their bedrooms than do rich
kids, claiming that TV was causing poverty. Anyone think the average poor
kid will use his govt sponsored computer to learn about DNA sequencing?
If anything, the purpose of giving poor kids web access is to keep them
stupid. After all, until it becomes cost effective to build machines to
flip and peddle grease burgers we will need uneducated people to do our
grunt work. Can't have a stable country with PhDs driving garbage trucks.
billwald@juno.com
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