ABSTRACT
The school curriculum is like the Mercator Projection on a world map: it has expanded to fill the scales of latitude and longitude from that of a circle to a rectangle. And it has accomplished this illusion without seeming to have changed our perspective of the globe. Like the Mercator Projection, the curriculum has changed the shape of things by distorting the units for measuring reality. But unlike a cartographer, or the inventor of the illogical typewriter key board, it is not easy to rearrange a better system.
