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Your article on creating creativity was "right on," especially about
students who are squeezed into the tight mold of conformity.  (As I
remember, both Einstein and Edison did not have a formal education.
Einstein didn't talk at the accepted age and was considered slow.)  I
believe home schooling, in many instances, seems to give children an edge over conventional education.  Is that because they are encouraged to be creative rather than to conform?

Another instance of the "dumbing down" of our children in the nation's
schools would be the efforts to clean up Islam's image.  The National
Education Association urged teachers (and their students) in their
guidelines not to judge the terrorists of September 11, 2001:  "We still
believe that all people are innocent until solid reliable evidence from our
legal authorities proves otherwise."  Also freshmen at the University of
North Carolina were told to read peaceful selections of the Qur'an, but left
out the parts about the duty of Muslims to kill "infidels." By trying to
teach tolerance in our schools and colleges, these officials are not
offering our children the whole truth.  How can our public school students
be creative if aren't even given the correct and complete facts with which
to work?  Carolyn Camoriano

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