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ignorant about ignorance?
Today is the 3rd day of the 8th week, the 19th day of the 2nd month, the 50th day of 2019, and:
- International Tug-of-War Day
- Iwo Jima Day
- National Chocolate Mint Day
- National Lash Day
- National Vet Girls ROCK Day
- Travel Africa Day
- Prevent Plagiarism Day
ON THIS DAY IN:
842 - Medieval Iconoclastic Controversy ends as a council in Constantinople formally reinstates the veneration of icons in churches
1771 - Messier adds M46-M49 to his catalog (galactic clusters in Puppis & Hydra & galaxy in Virgo)
1819 – British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands and claims them in the name of King George III.
1878 – Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
1910 - English premiere of Richard Strauss' "Elektra"
1922 - Ed Wynn becomes the first talent to sign as a radio entertainer
1942 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese Americans to internment camps.
1960 – China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket.
1963 - "The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan, widely credited as the start of second-wave feminism, was published.
1968 - "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" debuts on NET (now PBS)
1973 - "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" single released by Dawn featuring Tony Orlando (Billboard Song of the Year 1973)
1976 – Executive Order 9066, which led to the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps, is rescinded by President Gerald Ford's Proclamation 4417.
1977 - France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
1977 - Space shuttle Enterprise makes first Test flight atop a 747 jetliner
1985 – William J. Schroeder becomes the first recipient of an artificial heart to leave hospital.
1985 - Canned and bottled Cherry Coke introduced by Coca-Cola
1985 - Mickey Mouse welcomed in China
1990 - Soyuz TM-9 lands
1996 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in York PA on WQXA 105.7 FM
1997 - FCC makes available 311 for non-emergency calls & 711 for hearing or speech-impaired emergency calls
1998 - Soyuz TM-26 lands
2002 – NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
2007 - Blogging website Tumblr is founded by David Karp in New York
Quote of the day:
“Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.”
~ W.E.B. Du Bois, American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor, in a speech at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, August 1906
As we talk about taxes, I have heard more than one person complain either about sales tax, property tax, or income taxes that are raised for the benefit of schools. The most common comment is something along the lines of “I don’t have any children. Why should I pay for someone else’s?”. I have also heard it said, usually by proponents of zero population growth, that there should be a limit to the number of dependents allowed as deductions, again the reasoning being that they shouldn’t have to pay for someone else to have kids. And then there is the drive for vouchers – parents who choose to send their kids to private and/or religious schools want to siphon off their tax dollars away from the general education fund.
Teachers are treated like disposable assets instead of the education professionals they are, and getting them a pay raise seems difficult if not impossible. Schools are under-staffed and lack supplies – unless you live in certain privileged zip codes or go to private schools. Curriculums are altered to follow the agendas of politicians – history is altered with sins of omission, the liberal arts are considered “soft” and unnecessary, science is lumped as theory, and “alternative” points of view are touted as needing to be stressed.
The result? Being educated has come to mean being trained to work, and the breadth of learning how to think critically is no longer considered a desirable or valued outcome. We as a nation have become ignorant even as we become more immersed in technology – a dangerous combination.
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