On Nov 22, 2006, at 11:51 PM, Vitaliy wrote:

> I still remember the time after the collapse of the USSR,
> when for several years the teachers had to tell us that "we'll skip 
> over
> this section", "this is no longer true.."  :)
>
Shucks, even in the USA we stilll have science textbooks that claim that
pluto is a PLANET.  My daughter is supposed to get to astronomy this
school year; I'll be curious to see how it is handled...

(I can, however, see a bit of political furor developing should the US
try to "dump" obsolete textbooks (that have entered the public domain)
on poorer nations.  Even if they are only a little bit obsolete.)

(Alas, yet another problem with the concept is that as I remember early
education (and in the case of my own children), textbooks (and tools 
like
computers) are a lot less important than TEACHERS.  Perhaps a "One 
Laptop
per Teacher" program should precede OLPC.  (but it would be harder to
protect from abuse.))

BillW
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