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Seattle Schools Community Forum: The Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland; Useful for Today's Politics

Seattle Schools Community Forum: The Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland; Useful for Today's Politics:


The Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland; Useful for Today's Politics

The Wizard of Oz was published in 1900.  Alice in Wonderland was published in 1865.  But their usefulness in politics? Timeless.

So many phrases describe what we see every day.  Down the Rabbit Hole.  Advice from the Caterpillar.  Don't mind that man behind the curtain.  Not in Kansas anymore.  

The Mock Turtle on education:  Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with, and then the different branches of arithmetic -- Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean -