Seeing blunders in print


With the many textbook errors, there is a serious need to push for better standards in the content, editing and publication of books used in the nation’s primary and secondary schools.

SUFFOCATE a kitten to death. This was exactly what an environmental science textbook in India asked schoolchildren to do in one of its experiments. The purpose? To help them learn that all living beings need air.

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