Where is the Central Scrutinizer when we need him?

The following message was forwarded to me by my school's librarian. I'm still trying to decide whether or not she forwarded it to me as a joke:

Dear Teacher,

With the generous help of our donors and your local businesses, the Ayn Rand Institute is providing free classroom sets of Ayn Rand's novels, Anthem and The Fountainhead, along with teacher's guides and lesson plans, to high schools in the US and Canada.

Anthem tells of a dark world of the future, a society so collectivized that even the word "I" has vanished from the language and one man’s defiance of that society. Anthem’s theme is: the meaning and glory of man’s ego. Anthem is appropriate for grades 9 and 10.

The Fountainhead is the story of an innovative, uncompromisingly independent architect, Howard Roark, and his battle against a tradition-worshipping society. Its theme is "individualism versus collectivism, not in politics, but in man’s soul." Ayn Rand presented here for the first time her projection of an ideal man. The Fountainhead is appropriate for grades 11 and 12.

If you are a teacher, and you would like to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to teach Ayn Rand's novels in your classroom, please visit http://www.aynrand.org/education_classroom_books and complete our online form.

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Marilee Dragsdahl
Education Department Manager
The Ayn Rand Institute
2121 Alton Parkway, Suite 250
Irvine, CA 92606
Phone: (949) 222-6550 ext. 209
Fax: (949) 222-6558

There's a Scientologist Celebrity Centre here in Dallas. http://www.scientology-ccdallas.org/ I bet they'd be willing to send me a free class set, too. The only catch to getting free copies from the Randroids is that I actually have to teach the material if they send it to me.

A little bit of Googling has dredged up some lesson plans on Intelligent Design from these kind pseudo-scientists: http://www.rael.org/

Perhaps I could offer my students the connection between science of Yoga, the theology of all major religions, and the mysteries of UFOs? http://www.aetherius.org/

Interestingly enough, the founders of Unarius bring up the age-old AP essay question: why are whack-jobs always famous people in previous lives?

• "...Ruth Norman (Uriel) is of a vast development, a Universal Radiant Infinite Eternal Light. She has long worked for the benefit of mankind, by the side of Raphiel and others of the Unarius Brotherhood, throughout many, many lifetimes of great significance in the history of Earth and other worlds. Her previous lifetimes, as Socrates, Peter the Great, Charlemagne, Queen Elizabeth I, [ed. emphasis added] and Queen Maria Theresa have shaped the future for many countries--all a part of a one-million year progressive plan for the healing of mankind on Earth, which was set in motion by the Spiritual Hierarchy of the Unarius Brotherhood. Her inspirational example continued through her lives as Hatshepsut, Akbar of India, Quetzalcoatl, Atahualpa--the last Inca of Peru, and many others... Perhaps most significant to 20th-century man is the true story of Uriel's incarnation as Mary of Bethany, the betrothed and 13th disciple of Jesus of Nazareth--a prior incarnation of Dr. Ernest L. Norman. This story is related in Uriel's short autobiography, My 2000-Year Psychic Memory as Mary of Bethany."

More at http://www.unarius.org/bio.html . A lot more.

How can I possibly take over the world when so many people have already jump started their own plans?