Text Books Quotes

After only 25 years—1998—this material was in the schoolbooks of every industrial democracy in the world with the exception of the United States. At that time a substantial minority of the school children from the South, Kansas, and Oklahoma, had their books censored and were not able to study evolution as a result of protestant fundamentalist objections to teaching anything which contradicts the Bible. It was uncertain what would happen in the years to 2023—the 50 years cited in the quotation. The material is being taught in China, India, Thailand, Korea, and many developing nations where there ideological obstacles have been in the Islamic nations, but not Turkey which is with the other industrial democracies. So in the 25 yeas, the majority of the school children of the world find the material “commonplace” in their schools and books.

This historical quotation gives us an understanding of why rural schools have been behind urban and suburban schools. The poor, rural communities did not have the resources to pay for a first class education.

D. H. Hill. These are very important historical quotations in that they illustrate something that is not well known by most of us. In the decades before the Civil War there was a strong cultural enmity on the part of most Southerners of the Northern countrymen. It was so gross and overt that problems like this in a Southern college Algebra Text were not only published but used un schools throughout the South. Northerners were depicted in many of the Southern Cultural examples as duplicitous, greedy, dishonorable, cowardly, radical, irreligious, and extremist. The North did not have a very favorable view of Southerners who were perceived as uneducated, reactionary, anti-modern, lazy, hypocritical, cruel and backward – much implied by the acceptance of slavery. However the Northerners were not overt about their biases. These kinds of derogatory school problems were not acceptable. However the Northern bias was in some ways worse as it made most Northerners quite condescending when interacting with Southerners. After the Civil War, Southern education, culture, science and industry did not develop at the same pace as the North and the condescension continued well into the 20th century, at the end of which the South began to close the historical gap.

At the time, there were many schools that had old, outmoded textbooks and some with no textbooks at all. Illegal drugs could be obtained in almost any school either from other students or from sources who students could refer a drug buyer to.