Al Rudnitsky's Profile

   As we make changes, I believe we should look at classical models of learning. Those German schools didn’t cherish imagination, but they did give their students great literature, languages, solid mathematics, and sound science: all tools for reasoning. Why can’t our kids have all that, along with an environment that nurtures imagination?

As the war on germs escalates, some researchers are saying the time has come
for a more sophisticated view of germs, one that better reflects our place in
the germ-filled world. Some even suggest we've already gone too far. What's
needed is not less exposure to microbes, but more. `Is there such a thing as
being too clean?' says Stuart Levy; director of the Center for Adaptation
Genetics and Drug Resistance at Tufts University in Boston. `I think there
probably is.'