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These determined do-gooders are just a few of the ecokids, the new generation of conservation-conscious, environmentally active schoolchildren. The Earth Day ardor of their parents may be cooling, but these pint-size crusaders have lost none of theirs. Bombarded with ecomessages in school, in the press, on TV and in pop-music lyrics, the youngsters have become convinced that they were put on the planet for the express purpose of saving...
...only charming plagiarism belongs to the young. Schoolchildren shovel information out of an encyclopedia. Gradually they complicate the burglary, taking from two or three reference books instead of one. The mind (still on the wrong side of the law) then deviously begins to intermingle passages, reshuffle sentences, disguise raw chunks from the Britannica, find synonyms, reshape information until it becomes something like the student's own. A writer, as Saul Bellow has said, "is a reader moved to emulation." Knowledge transforms theft. An autonomous mind emerges from the sloughed skin of the plagiarist...
...done more to change the course of human history than Christopher Columbus." That was the conclusion of Edward Channing's 1905 classic, History of the United States. To generations of American schoolchildren, Columbus has been the all-time heroic figure portrayed by Channing and, more romantically, by Washington Irving in 1828: "a man of great and inventive genius" whose "ambition was lofty and noble." No wonder that Pope Pius IX wanted to make the discoverer of America a saint, or that more places in the English- speaking world are named for the Admiral of the Ocean Sea than...
During a discussion on Fox TV's Off the Record about the question of providing condoms to schoolchildren, the New York Democratic Congressman waxed reminiscent: "It shatters what all of us were trained to believe. Heck, I carried one around for years and never got a chance...
Aside from Saddam's principal aides and Baath Party regulars, the only Iraqis who publicly pretend enthusiasm for the coming struggle are schoolchildren. Several thousand parade past the U.S. embassy, shouting, "Down, down Bush!" Each day in their classrooms they salute their leader, are taught the lessons of the reunification of Kuwait and are drilled in the ugly designs of the Americans and Zionists...