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Is the education BUSINESS really about education? Is it really about making money on what they claim is education and controlling the distribution of knowledge? But it is affected by changes in population and technology and whatever else forces evolution in society. But we could have created a National Recommended Reading List for children decades ago. Why didn't we. We could have made double-entry accounting mandatory in the schools. Double-entry accounting is 700 years old. Are we really supposed to believe it is difficult to understand? But now we have cheap tablet computer and public domain books, but what to read? The Tyranny of Words (1938) by Stuart Chase http://www.anxietyculture.com/tyranny.htm http://www.archive.org/download/http://archive.org/details/tyrannyofwords00chas A Short History of the World (1922) by H. G. Wells (not sci-fi but an SF writer's perspective) http://www.bartleby.com/86/ Thinking as a Science (1916) by Henry Hazlitt Henry Hazlitt - Thinking as a Science http://librivox.org/thinking-as-a-science-by-henry-hazlitt/ Omnilingual (Feb 1957) by H. Beam Piper http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/03/scientific-language-h-beam-pipers-qomnilingualq http://www.feedbooks.com/book/308/omnilingual http://librivox.org/omnilingual-by-h-beam-piper/ The Accounting Game: Basic Accounting Fresh From the Lemonade Stand http://www.exceltip.com/book-1570713960.html http://www.fool.com/personal-finance/general/2006/10/18/foolish-book-review-quotthe-accounting-gamequot.aspx Radically Simple Accounting by Madeline Bailey http://qccomputing.com/radical-accounting-book.htm There are good books out there but most books are crap and most people are not spreading good information. That is the modern interpretation of Darwinism. 43 years after the Moon landing we are supposed to believe economists don't know about planned obsolescence? Now we have it in computers more powerful than we actually need. Gotta keep people buying computers.

I am rereading The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven. I haven't read it in 20+ years. I recall thinking it a good story way back when ant it is still good. Now I notice similarities between it and the Antares Trilogy by Michael McCollum. A lot of people who say they like science fiction do not like science in their science fiction. Both of these tales are called Hard SF. I don't think much of The Hunger Games. The Vorkosigan series is better for people who want really good characterization but her science is acceptable also. psik

Let's face facts. In 1980 an IBM 3033 mainframe cost $3,000,000. How many schools could afford that back then? That mainframe was about equivalent to a 300 MHz Pentium. Everybody can get cheap computers and give them to grade school kids. Colleges can't impress parents with computers anymore. But if the concern is really EDUCATION the question is, "What to do with the computers in grade school?" In ten years college could be obsolete. The Tyranny of Words by Stuart Chase Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics, by Stan Gibilisco http://www.mhprofessional.com/product.php?isbn=0071459332 The Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill http://books.sharedaa.com/2010/01/the-art-of-electronics-horowitz-hill.html Celestia: space simulation of the universe in 3D http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ GeoGebra: Interactive graphics, algebra and spreadsheet http://www.geogebra.org/cms/ Solve Elec: draw and analyze electrical circuits http://www.physicsbox.com/indexsolveelec2en.html Logisim: Digital logic circuit simulator http://sourceforge.net/projects/circuit/ Cost of Living by Sheckley Robert http://www.onread.com/book/Cost-of-Living-20266/ Subversive by Reynolds Mack http://www.onread.com/book/Subversive-13972/ The Space Merchants Frederick Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth http://www.zone-sf.com/spacemerch.html Educators could have created a National Recommended Reading List decades ago. It ain't about education. It's about making money off education and using the schools to maintain the class structure. psik

Intel processors that dual boot Linux and some version of Windows. I use Linux more than Windows. Mac's Tiger and Leopard are versions of UNIX. psik