[PLUG] Open Source In Our Schools

[Sean Whitney]

> A voice of reason.  It is interesting how few people know, understand,
> and can use high school mathematics; things like algebra, the Pythagorean
> Theorem, and simple right triangle trigonometry.  No wonder so many people
> misunderstand and miss use more advanced mathematics, like probability and
> statistics.

The success of state lottery is an example of a failure of our education 
system to teach mathematics.  Someone once said that gambling was a tax on
those who flunked math.


Sean

-- 
Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on 
which he has based it.  Give him the truth and he may still go wrong 
when he has the chance to be right, but give him no news or present 
him only with distorted and incomplete data, with ignorant, sloppy or 
biased reporting, with propaganda and deliberate falsehoods, and you 
destroy his whole reasoning processes, and make him something less 
than a man.
-- Arthur Hays Sulzberger