A friend of mine was complaining the other day that her kids kept turning on the lights (and then leaving them on) after she made a big deal about turning them all off and explaining the importance of energy conservation. Sounds like a pretty normal scenario right? Well apparently this is not how all kids are reacting the information they get about global warning and saving energy. There's an article in the Wall Street Journal: Inconvenient Youths that talks about how kids are being taught so much about conservation in school that they are starting to put pressure on their parents to become greener. In the article some of the parents are questioning whether it's the school's place to introduce political topics -- like global warming. Is trying to educate a child to be a good citizen of the planet a way of teaching politics?
The whole article brought to mind so many possible futures. Could there be a future where education become so narrowly defined that children have to take pre-taped classes over the Internet so that there can be no possibility of introducing 'un-sanctioned' topics.
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