A Glorious Dream
“...getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world, and, through this knowledge, turning a stream of fresh and free thought upon our stock notions and habits...”
Matthew Arnold, 1875 Preface to Culture and Anarchy
American high school seniors in 2001
Q: When the United States entered the Second World War, one of its allies was...
Survey says:
A. Germany - 19 % [WTF !!??]
B. Japan - 9 % [maybe the Germans did bomb Pearl Harbor?]
C. the Soviet Union - 48% [Correct!]
D. Italy - 24% [lovers not fighters?]
Source: U.S. Department of Education
“The Internet mirrors society.If you don’t like what you see in the mirror,
don’t break the mirror.”Vint Cerf
[an actual inventor of the Internet]
New York SunFebruary 7, 1909
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