Book Learnin’
Surely you remember when “Japan dropped a nuclear bomb on [the] US during World War 2.” And in science class, you learned how the “Proportion of poisonous gas CO3 has increased due to cutting of trees.” The textbooks for grade 6 to 8 students in Gujarat, India, have those errors and at least 120 more. (The Gujarat Council of Educational Research and Training didn’t even get the date of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination correct.) Teachers are outraged at the books. “This clearly is the reflection of the competency of the writers of the book and even competency of the translators,” complains one school principal. The state government hasn’t recalled the books, but “We have set up a two member committee to look into these errors and make changes immediately,” said State Education Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama. (RC/NDTV India) ...On the other hand, I’m not confident that very many U.S. teachers would have found such errors.Original Publication Date: 09 March 2014
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 20.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 20.
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