The Frontier Centre for Public Policy, the wheat field version of the right wing Fraser Institute, has outdone itself for sheer wackiness.

A couple of weeks ago, the "think" tank came up with a report suggesting that schools are spending too much time introducing kids to computers. Too expensive, said the centre. And, besides, kids with computers don't learn any better than anyone else.

One might have thought the author still had shares in some kind of chisel-and-tablet company. Well, after all, the old Remington Selectric was good enough for grandpa, it should be good enough for today's kids.

If that wasn't bad enough, the centre for hayseeds has come up with a report that tops that, this one claiming that students are getting a lopsided view of the environment.

The report makes such sweeping conclusions as "most textbooks and children's books that deal with the environment contain significant exaggerations and fallacies." Apparently, unlike reports from the Frontier Centre on Public Policy.

Children's books?

You mean to say that the Once-ler in Dr. Suess's book The Lorax didn't chop down all the Truffula trees? Get outta town.

Not only that, the centre says that despite "the fact" that "not all scientists accept global warming is caused by man-mad CO2 emissions … students are normally only exposed to the accepted view on global warming."

Indeed. Because it is "accepted." Accepted by, oh, 99 per cent of the world's top scientists. The centre must be one of the lone castles standing against what everyone else accepted years ago.

The author, no doubt, yearns for that old family buckboard and those lazy, hazy school days when he could dunk girls' pigtails in the inkwell on his desk.

That will be next week's report.