Your report is an example of something that I have been recommending to
the USMA officers by why of changing the wording of its mission, which
should not be expressed as "convert to metric in the U.S.," but "complete
the conversion that is halfway done."
The metric system has not gone by the wayside. It is more used than ever
before. All new technologies use it from the start: nuclear, lighting,
electrical, etc. We are already converted in medicine, most of beverages,
science, manufacturing, etc.
It is a mistake to think that conversion has not taken place just because,
for example, automobiles are manufactured in metric, but described in
advertising in inch-pound. Our task is to make people understand that
we are already half way and need to complete the conversion for our
country's trade and financial benefit.
Being stuck in the middle is the worst place to be. Moreover, who is
advocating a return to grains instead of milligrams, ounces instead of
litres, etc.? Once people naturally think metric in these areas, there is
no backlash.
Martin Morrison
USMA Training & Education Columnist
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On Sun, 16 Jun 2013, Team Metric Info wrote:
http://www.thetimesnews.com/news/local-columnists/brent-lancaster/a-writing-form-without-real-funct
ion-1.151163
OMG- how do these people get published. The writer of this article is agreeing
with the change in
some public education curriculum related to teaching kids to write in cursive
which, btw, he is
completely wrong about from a brain development perspective.
Here is the last sentence of the article:
?The world is moving fast. There?s not much use for cursive writing anymore.
Let?s let it go the way
of instruction in the metric system.?
How has the U.S become so ignorant about the metric system?
