The US education establishment likes to use sophisticated words like metric and
metrics without understanding what the words really mean, or, they use changes
of commonly used words to something similar to hide the real meaning.
Stan Doore
----- Original Message -----
From: Norman & Nancy Werling
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 5:05 PM
Subject: [USMA:42274] Re: Ed-week
Pat,
I find it fascinating that many American professionals of many persuations
continually use the word "metric" in the sense of "defining measures of
success, etc." when referring to many topics. But these same
professionals--and I use the word loosely--continue to change meters to yards.
I continue to feel that it is the media who are most guilty with regard to
changing SI terms to USC.
On January 8 Pat Naughton wrote:
Subject: [USMA:42272] Ed-week
Dear All,
I happened on this web site at http://www.edweek.org/ew/index.html and
thought that they might have some thoughts on metric system education in the
USA. However, a search for the words metric system (without quotes) resulted in
4 references that referred to system and systems and that used the word metric
and metrics only in the sense of using the right metrics or choosing another
metric.
It would appear that the metric system has not been thought worthy of
consideration by these magazines in the last 12 months.
For information about who runs this web site go to
http://www.edweek.org/info/about/
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
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Geelong, Australia
Phone: 61 3 5241 2008
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