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Ok, Art Teachers; help me out here...

From: Lawrence A. Parker (occti)
Date: Thu Mar 23 2000 - 12:52:57 PST

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    Lawrence A. Parker
    Philosopher/Educational Consultant
    The Ohio Center for Critical Thinking Instruction
    http://www.acorn.net/lists-ht/occti.html
    Truth, Honor and Courage

    I bought my kids a new dictionary (American Heritage, 1998 -
    Houghton-Mifflin). I was talking with my son, Geoff, just now about colors
    and primary colors. He hasn't heard of them yet, so I had him look up first
    "primary" and then "primary colors" in the dictionary.

    Under "Primary Colors" it says: "n. 1. Any of the three colors of light,
    red, green, and blue, from which light of any color can be made my
    mixing..."

    Now, excuse me, unless I've totally lost it (which is, after all, completely
    possible, but I don't think so in this case), aren't the three primary
    colors Red, Blue and Yellow? Because Green is a mixture of Blue and Yellow?

    If I'm not off my rocker, than what is a respected name like AH and H-M
    doing putting out mistakes like this? How can our children trust knowledge
    if they're being given mis-information from the most basic source, a
    dictionary?

    Thanks,
    Larry 

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