Mr. Lockley, Thank you very much for your article supporting U.S. metrication. I hope you will communicate this same enthusiasm to your representative and senators in the Congress.
It puzzles me to see so many newspaper and magazine articles favoring U.S. completion of its metrication transition, yet this part of the Nation's business remains unfinished.. If the Fourth Estate would only send copies of its sentiments to the Congress and the President, perhaps we would see a totally metric America much sooner. One problem with the lack of speed of the U.S. changeover is that familiarity breeds consent, and our country has not pursued metric education with the fervor of a Nation that has already declared metric to be its "preferred" system of measurement fo trade and commerce. We remain widely familiar only with the old units, so we consent to their perpetuation. The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics continues to adhere to a policy of promoting the teaching of both metric and pre-metric measurement systems to our country's students. My organization supports the teaching of the metric system exclusively and succinctly, to the end that all Americans will be well-versed in its simplicity. Paul R. Trusten Registered Pharmacist Vice President and Public Relations Director U.S. Metric Association, Inc. www.metric.org [email protected] +1(432)528-7724
