While reading Principle-Centered Leadership I came across some familiar passages about the greatness of Chistopher Columbus. The funniest thing (besides not mentioning his enslavement and then extermination of a civilization) was a passage about how Columbus went against the current thinking of the day and provided a new map for the people to use where the world was round. Why this strikes me as funny is that in Lies My Teacher Told Me, they point out that at the time that Columbus sailed, it was generally accepted that the world was round (Loewen, pg 56). The great thing about reading more is that I'm getting back into being more skeptical about what I read.