To the educators of Saskatchewan,
I recently read of plans for Saskatchewan to restore the teaching of the
use of measurement units other than SI (modernized metric system) units.
I am not Canadian, but I am a North American, and one who wishes to
express his opposition to such a proposal.
The International System of Units is the measurement system of the
world. We in North America, especially the people of my country, the
United States, have long delayed our full use of this global measurement
language due to what I perceive to be a combination of xenophobia,
sloth, parsimony, and ignorance. These old defects in our national
characters must now be corrected.
I applaud Canada's official adoption of SI, and hope very much that "The
True North, Strong and Free" will be a good example for the United
States to follow when it begins its inevitable conversion to metric in
the next decade. But this progress will be harmed if the proposed
backsliding in your province is allowed. We North Americans have to take
our metre stick and draw a line in the snow against the return of the
arachaic and anti-economic measurement units of our past, and I hope
that Saskatchewan educators will not fail to support the exclusive use
of SI as we enter the new century.
Sincerely,
--
Paul Trusten, R.Ph.
3609 Caldera Boulevard, Apt. 122
Midland TX 79707-2872 USA
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