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Our Priests And Presidents, Our Surgeons And Lawyers, Our Educators And Newscasters Need Worry Less About Satisfying The Demands Of Their Discipline Than The Demands Of Good Showmanship.

Voting Is The Next-to-last Refuge Of The Politically Impotent. The Last Refuge, Of Course, Is Giving Your Opinion To A Pollster.

[m]ost Of Our Daily News Is Inert, Consisting Of Information That Gives Us Something To Talk About But Cannot Lead To Any Meaningful Action. (68).

Textbooks, It Seems To Me, Are Enemies Of Education, Instruments For Promoting Dogmatism And Trivial Learning. They May Save The Teacher Some Trouble, But The Trouble They Inflict On The Minds Of Students Is A Blight And A Curse.

The Scientific Method," Thomas Henry Huxley Once Wrote, "is Nothing But The Normal Working Of The Human Mind." That Is To Say, When The Mind Is Working; That Is To Say Further, When It Is Engaged In Correcting Its Mistakes. Taking This Point Of View, We May Conclude That Science Is Not Physics, Biology, Or Chemistry — Is Not Even A ”subject " — But A Moral Imperative Drawn From A Larger Narrative Whose Purpose Is To Give Perspective, Balance, And Humility To Learning.