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Thursday, September 17, 2009

Plants

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

~ John W. Gardner
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I might have been a good botanist. I like plants.
I think that maybe "botanists" who make artificial plants get their jobs because they falsified their diplomas.
But back to me. I think I really would have been a great chemist except that when I got my microscope for Christmas one year, my parents took the chemistry stuff that came with it away from me. I have always harbored resentment about that.
Of course, at that time, the chemicals might have included things like mercury or asbestos or DDT.

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