With about a month to go in my vacation, I was toying with reading "The World Is Flat." School districts are forcing administrators to read it and do the "deep, meaningful analysis of implications for education" horseshit, so i figured I might give it a go. On the other hand, I'm afraid that Friedman's "revelations" will be nothing but a pile of boring-ass statistics and numbers that pretty much won't come as a surprise to anyone who's been reading papers/the 'net and paying attention to world events.
Anybody here checked it out?
World Is Flat - worth a read?
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World Is Flat - worth a read?
THE BIBLE - Because all the works of all the science cannot equal the wisdom of cattle-sacrificing primitives who thought every animal species in the world lived within walking distance of Noah's house.
What is the use of adopting a rigid mental attitude pre-determining what you choose to read without any kind of rational analysis? Rational people don't pick and choose things to read based on the extent to which those things conform to their ideology. They are even curious about viewpoints which contradict their own preconceptions.