Re: Kids.....(Easy scapegoats aren't they?)

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Christian Huitema <huitema () windows microsoft com>
Date: November 16, 2008 8:12:03 PM EST
To: "dave () farber net" <dave () farber net>, ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
Subject: RE: [IP] WORTH READING    Kids.....(Easy scapegoats aren't  
they?)

To provoke thinking is one thing, to forward urban legends another.  
The attribution of the "message to kids" to Bill Gates belong to the  
second category. Check http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_bill_gates_speech.htm 
 for a debunking. According to this page, the text itself a pared- 
down version of an op-ed piece that appeared in the San Diego Union- 
Tribune on September 19, 1996. It was written by Charles J. Sykes,  
best known as the author of "Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American  
Children Feel Good about Themselves, but Can’t Read, Write, or Add."   
Drastically edited by person(s) unknown, it began making the email  
rounds under Bill Gates' name in February 2000 and is still, as of  
this writing in 2005, far more often attributed to Gates than to Sykes  
— which is unfortunate, but, like the man said: Life isn't fair; get  
used to it.

-- Christian Huitema
 


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