Inventing the Flat Earth - Jeffrey Burton Russell. The more I learn about history, the more things I was taught in High School that I find out are totally incorrect, the more pissed I am. It's like when I got to high school and found out that there was a fourth state of matter (plasma), when the whole time in elementary school I was taught to believe there are only three. The difference is that that was an "innocent" mistake, which was then corrected in light of new discoveries. There is no excuse for teaching some of the things that are still being taught.
Oh, and for not teaching things that should be taught. Maybe... logic and philosophy?
Thursday, February 14, 2002
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