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[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net]

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Scott Castaline wrote:

> Jim Popovitch wrote:
> 
> >--- "James P. Kinney III" <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 18:55 -0400, Bob Toxen wrote:
<<snip various political observations/rants>>
> >
> For what it's worth, in my travels, I've met people (Americans) who 
> didn't know where Atlanta is.

As you wander this country of ours, you can find (easily!!) lots of people 
totally clueless about our geography. People who supposedly are educated.

Twenty odd years ago there was a modest stink when something like 30% of 
the freshmen class in the California colleges which provide a majority of 
the state's teachers could not identify the body of water to the west of 
the state. I very seriously doubt that the situation has changed, or that 
California is unique.

As an unfair challenge, try taking a sheet of paper and pencil and 
indicating the approximate location of each US state and the state capital 
from memory. Extra points if you can add the same information of 
either/both Mexico or Canada. (I just realized that sounds like a modestly 
fun challenge - I may have to test myself one of these days.)


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If you think Education is expensive
Try Ignorance
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