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When she reaches out and touches the snake, she is changed for the rest of her life. She is taking one of the many steps in learning to be bioliterate. This is to change the great green blur of the forest on the roadside to a complex book to be read and listen to and learn from. We cannot predict what she will specifically do with her bioliteracy and more than we can predict what a child will do with learning more conventional kinds of reading. But we can predict that when she is 20, 40 and 60 years old, and making decisions in her walk of life, she will do it better with respect to the environment than if she were bioilliterate. The budget for the Biological Education Program is 18% of the annual budget of the ACG. Not only does she grow up bioliterate, but she grows up remembering and knowing the ACG as a place where fun and interesting things happened to her - the ACG teaches biology in the field to all 4th, 5th, and 6th graders, and some high school students, for all 41 schools ringing the ACG. |
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