Posted on 10/17/2004 4:40:41 PM PDT by hipaatwo
Time for the kid to stop fighting ideological battles in the lunch room, and pay attention in English class!
The tale of a Yankee Conservative in a Connecticut Circus...
I believe (in fact I hope) that the Publik Skool System, from grade school through college, will become an obsolete dinosaur as online education, private schools, and home schooling become more available.
Same thought here. This kid is obviously brilliant beyond his years, not merely educated. The bio at republicandan.blogspot.com doesn't give any info at all, but I think this is Gelernter's kid.
Gelertner teaches nearby at Yale. One of his sons is in fact named Daniel, who was six when his dad was attacked by the Unabomber in 1993; so he'd be about the same age the blogger (info from an article I Googled: Death in the Mail -- Tracking a Killer: A special report
I also recall seeing a TechTV program on Gelernter a few years back which included segements with his two sons. The older boy was very interested in politics and government, showed off his poltical memorbilia, and boasted of having personally met various important government officials, like the FBI director.
Pretty decent circumstantial case.
Only the kids will have the courage to shut down the government schools.
It's strange, but there are google reports on "David Gelertner" (2 Rs) and on "David Gerlertner" (3 Rs) . They both appear to be computer scientists.
One entry: Interestingly, because of his technology involvement and predictions, David Gerlertner was crippled and nearly killed by a bomb; he has never recovered his full hearing or full use of his right hand....David Gerlertner wrote another book: Mirror Worlds, in '92 - and has now started a company called Mirror Worlds Technologies, with software called Scopeware.
Another: David Gelernter is professor of computer science at Yale, chief scientist at Mirror Worlds Technologies, contributing editor at the Weekly Standard and member of the National Council of the Arts. He's the author of several books and many technical articles; also essays, art criticism and fiction. The "tuple spaces" introduced in Carriero and Gelernter's Linda system (1983) are the basis of many computer-communication and distributed programming systems worldwide. "Mirror Worlds" (1991) "foresaw" the World Wide Web
So here we have the same guy, apparently, with two different spellings of his name on the record.
It took me a few times to remember that he spell his name with 3 Rs.
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