Zeinab Radwan Quotes
Textbooks must be constant over many years for students to trust the system. But if we say something is true today and deny it tomorrow, students will lose faith in us. Consistency is at a premium.
The textbooks in the Egyptian schools and universities would change frequently as the politics of the nation and the world changed. This is typical in nations where ideology changes frequently. There is pressure for textbook change even in America, even over such basic science as evolution or interpretations of history and politics. In Egypt and most other nations even facts change from year to year.
Zeinab Radwan, Egyptian Philosopher, Dean of Cairo University's Dar Al-Ulum, Statement on Egyptian Textbooks, Quoted in Al-Ahram, July 20 – 26, 2000
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When Billy Carter ran for mayor of Plains, GA, he predicted:
While there are dramatic exceptions such as during the Nixon and George W. Bush administrations, compared to most other nations were the indicator of official lying is a leader’s lips moving, the United States is among the leading nations with respect to official deception of the citizens.
