To the Editor: Standardized test scores can provide some evidence of what knowledge and skills students have learned.
"We need to, as a public, be better educated about how information is created and what it consists of, what knowledge is and how it's tested and how to verify that things are true.
Because these claims together reflect the religion's conception of what knowledge of God is, they must be taken into account when endeavouring to establish whether any particular belief within the religion is reasonable.
Indeed, D'Agata's prime reason for steering us through all the glittery factoids and scholarship is to take us to the ledge of what knowledge can provide, and to document how perilous it can be to stand on that ledge.
Like Nabokov in his Antiterra, like Faulkner in his imaginary South, Marías, from book to book but in one voice, has been mapping a country of his own, a Yoknapatawpha of the mind, full of tension between the desire to know and the fear of what knowledge costs.
It may take three years before a licensing agreement can be reached, during which time there is no discussion of terms, no discussion of what products the Japanese plan to use, no discussion of what knowledge and help they might need.
