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Survey Finds Teenagers Ignorant on Basic History and Literature Questions
By SAM DILLON Published: February 27, 2008 Fewer than half of American teenagers who were asked basic history and literature questions in a phone survey knew when the Civil War was fought, and one in four said Columbus sailed to the New World some time after 1750, not in 1492. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/27/us...3b4&ei=5087%0A |
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One example among many. (Houghton Mifflin, 2007) Quote:
I'd like to see anybody justify this as appropriate.
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1 in 4 didn't know who Adolf Hitler was.
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Goddamn the nigger loving in this nation is so insane. Thanks, public schools. Thanks a million. Or is it a couple trillion? Thanks, Jews. |
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Being pumped full of dates can bore students to the extent that they don't learn anything. It's not a good idea to concentrate solely on that.
But the tendency in modern history syllabi to not teach history as a sequence of events but as a series of confrontations between contending principles does give students nowadays a pretty hazy idea of when things happened, or exactly who did what. Hitler? He was that bad guy in Germany, right? The Civil War? It was over a hundred years ago, or something, right? And it was because the Southerners wanted slaves, and the Northerners thought that slavery was wrong, right? Women's lib happened after WW2 because all the women who worked during the war didn't want to go back to being housemakers, right? (I could go on.) So students know who was, or is, the good guy and the bad guy - they know the uncomplicated, retarded, movie-narrative view of history - and that's all the history they need to know. |
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Educational standards in decline in Germany - grades stay the same while knowledge gets worse. By the way a grade of 1 is the best in that educational system if you don't know.
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