They're Messin' With the Big B, Agin

Folks are plannin' to flood a bunch of Buddhist carvings:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,479215,00.html (worksafe)

Didn't what happen in Afghanistan after the Taliban blew up those statues provide enough warning?

And People Think US Schools Are Bad...

Martin Johnson, the acting deputy general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, a teachers' union in Britain, says the national school curriculum is "totalitarian" because it focuses on academics. What should schools teach, then? "Other" types of knowledge, he said. Like what? Like learning how to walk properly. "There's a lot to learn about how to walk. If you were going out for a Sunday afternoon stroll you might walk one way," he says. "If you're trying to catch a train you might walk in another way and if you are doing a cliff walk you might walk in another way." (London Guardian)