Michael, Sometimes I pass my time reading articles stored on my laptop. The most recent one was: “Where is American Education Going, Report on a Convocation.” If you skim over it a bit yourself you will recognize most of the voices and be already quite familiar with most all of what is being said. Many [...]
Archive for May 2010
Mail to Michael Goldstein
May 31, 2010MR. GORBACHEV, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL! Mr. OBAMA DON’T BUILD THIS WALL!
May 29, 2010Reading William Finnegan’s Letter from Mexico one wonders why more of them, more Mexicans don’t come here, illegally if necessary. We should be surprised that so few citizens of this failed, or nearly failed land (not yet a nation) do remain at home, do not try to cross our border. If you’re not convinced read [...]
College for all? No more than home ownership for all.
May 18, 2010The real divide in our country is between those who would correct disparities and inequalities in the lives of our people by government programs, usually in the form of new and expanded entitlements, even going further into debt to do so, and those who don’t believe that the not to be denied inequalities among our [...]
Is the calculus the language of mathematics? Well no, but a language, and can everyone speak it at some level?
May 12, 2010At my age learning new things, even old things that I learned much earlier and have forgotten, is not easy. It’s hard. But somehow of all the things that make me know that I’m still alive learning new things is best. People of my own generation are now dying, and at increasing rates. I’m not, [...]
