Harvard professor, Howard Gardner, wants to devise a new test to measure
a student's ability to think in a scientific manner. A insipid " inspiration"
from a garden variety Ivy League brain. Why not just ask them their SIGN
my dear pedant?
Among other things the student will need to know " how to decide which
life insurance to buy ". They will clearly be lost here without a strong
grounding in the SCIENTIFIC METHOD as measured by dessicated pedants like
Dr. Gardner.
They will also need to know how to decide which cigarettes to smoke and
where to invest their hard earned money.
Does the good professor encourage his pupils to think " scientifically "
about the economic system of capitalism ?
Another little headline in your paper today : " Tobacco executive says
profits, health are equal ".
Perhaps Dr. Gardner should present himself to the man- Geoffrey Bible-
as a private tutor of " scientific thinking " ? No endowments jeopardized ?
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