Preface

My friends and family asked me why I would want to work on this book again. “After all,” they said, “you’ve done this once already. How many more lies can there be? And if there are new lies, can they possibly be all that different from the lies you covered in the first edition?” Sadly, the answer is yes. While most—though not all—of the topics are the same, the lies are often different, and even when the lies are the same, the technologies about which they are being told are different. Regardless, it is the fact that so much has changed in the past nine years, while so much has seemingly remained the same, that made this project so appealing.

Lies About Learning was published in September 2006. A Bush was president, an actor governed ...

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