Re: careless editing

[Phillip Bigelow <bigelowp@juno.com>]

On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 12:57:42 -0400 Heather Yager
<heather.yager@gmail.com> writes:
> > I have intelligent and otherwise well-educated friends around my 
> age
> > (29) who, before I told them otherwise, thought that not only
> > saber-toothed cats, but even trilobites were dinosaurs.


> On a positive note, though, I've taught pre-schoolers who can 
> provide
> fairly concice (for a four-year-old) descriptions of an astounding
> array of dinosaurs as well as describe the differences between
> saurischians and ornithischians...


Yes, but do these children know that their family's pet parakeet is a
dinosaur?  That criterion may be a better gauge of whether we're making
progress.

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