Liza, I have perused (in the sense of reviewed casually, as compared to scrutinized thoroughly and carefully) your web site. I may eventually write a more thorough-going review and comments, but at present careful criticism of my nephew's new book, "Zen and the Art of the SAT" comes first, so all I have to offer you now are a few first impressions. Instead of slicing an educaional pie, think of baking it first. It may be more mouth-watering that way. What are its ingredients, and how may they be proportioned, processed and combined? How much pie can any particular individual tolerate? (You can lead a whore to culture…) Then each bakery (school, business, family, prison or other institution) may use these tools to design its own range of pies to feed the hungry as it perceives and sees fit.

Did I ever tell you my story of being outsmarted by a chicken? Look backwards to see forwards. You may find clues to ingredients and process Who (or what) do we think of as an educated being, and how did that happen. I think of Shakespeare as educated, Karl Fredreich Gauss as educated, Moses as educated, Julius Cæsar as educated, of my cat, Florance as educated, Tolstoi and Turgenev and Checkov as educated, Hillel as educated, Mozart and Bach as educated, Adam as educated (by Eve), Cain as educated (but not Abel), S. Clemens and E. Dickensen and J. Austen as educated, Einstein and Clark Maxwell as educated, Plato as educated, particularly with his myth of the cave. Pythagoras, Manet, Monet, Picasso, Euclid vanGogh & Reimann also make my list. These beings are not particularly geniuses to my mind, just educated. I consider Lincoln educated, as well as US Grant and Sherman and RE Lee. Even Richard III as Shakespeare maligns him, I consider educated. I consider Stalin as educated, but oddly enough not Hitler. Hitler was dolt.

To be useful, I think your website needs to carefully define what it means by "education", and how one may determine when that result has been acheived.

Cheers! Michael= Fri 8/19/2005 1:00 PM