Saturday, July 2, 2011

Don't let my modest manner fool ya

Intellectually, I am damned immodest.

I don't think of us greens/ environmentalists as alternatives at all.

We hold the only accurate view of Reality -- it is our opponents that have a delusional scientific grasp on Reality.

This has been true since the 1920s, at least ; does it need a century to go by before they acknowledge this ?

We can only blame the teaching professions for the fact that kids in the 21st century still leave school stuffed full of the non-truths of the 19th century, by-passing the insights of  20th century science altogether.

If the human species is to survive, teachers must change - or go....

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