Noam Chomsky—Linguist, Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, Historian and Activist whose work has influenced computer science, mathematics and psychology.

It ain’t necessarily so

Posted by stoots on Oct 31st, 2012 | Comments Off home title

THE ECONOMIST | BRAUNSCHWEIG

The textbooks children learn from in school reveal and shape national attitudes—and should provoke debate.

… Few, if any, instruments shape national culture more powerfully than the materials used in schools. Textbooks are not only among the first books most people encounter; in many places they are, along with religious texts, almost the only books they encounter.

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"For centuries the Phoenicians alone possessed the secret of the manufacture of purple. ... The Roman emperors transferred the manufacture of purple to Italy and conducted it as a monopoly. The art of purple dying, which, like many of the arts, had reached a high level at this time, was lost almost completely in the stormy period which marked the migration of nations. For a short time the art was still preserved in the Byzantine Empire, only to become extinct there in the 12th Century."

Josef Maria Eder, Edward Epstean, and Hinricus Lüppo-Cramer, HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1945).

It ain’t necessarily so

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