"The USA appears destined by fate to plague America with misery in the name of liberty." Simon Bolivar, Caracas, 1819
Amongst teachers, geography is generally dismissed as a waste of time subject, taught by the PE teachers as it's the only thing they can manage an refered too by the dismissive term 'Colouring in'. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Of 56 quiz questions (not difficult ones), average correct answers were:
Sweden 40 Germany 38 Italy 38 France 34 Japan 31 Great Britain 28 Canada 27 U.S. 23 Mexico 21 *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
When I was in school(oh here we go-with the old person remembering way back when)which happened to be Catholic school we had a specific Geography Class/Geography books. What I do remember is that I liked it and it was pretty cool-we had to draw maps from memory of other countries-the easiest and most fun being of course Italy-the Boot.
After 9 years in Catholic school I went to public school and there was no Geography Class but something called Social Studies and almost no emphasis on actual maps and where countries were.
When my nephew got to school I know that geography was simply non existent -social studies weren't much better. Then again the whole education system here is broken as far as I'm concerned. When I went to the Community College here what I was basically learning is what I had already learned in Catholic grade school. "People never do evil so throughly and happily as when they do it from moral conviction."-Blaise Pascal
I had no idea the differences would be so large within Europe itself. Good stuff, DoDo.
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geography -- distances, borders, distinct cultures -- is "so yesterday." as Friedman clownishly proclaims, the world is flat (at least in the presently prevailing collective fantasy). everywhere is at most 12 hours from anywhere else. and if it isn't, then it's a place that just doesn't count. NYC is closer to Paris than it is to Nowhere, Kansas -- virtually speaking. an affluent burb is closer, by electronic and financial ties, to another affluent burb a continent away than to the slum on its physical border.
ironically the feverish global churning of finance and trade, increasing vastly the interconnection between us all, does seem to have diminished people's interest in or awareness of the actual physical geography... it does seem strange. The difference between theory and practise in practise ...
Here's the learning point:
Everyone in Europe knows where Iran is. There won't be war.
But:
Well, of course, there will be war - but it won't be ours. It will be yours. (Are you US?)
PS. We will follow it on KOS and support Jerome's opinions against the new war! We can also have a new Daily War Shit Thing on this site and light virtual candles. Thousands if need be! No problem - it's a vitual exercise. Is it? "The USA appears destined by fate to plague America with misery in the name of liberty." Simon Bolivar, Caracas, 1819
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Teach me to think i didn't need to run a spell check. ;-) Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
takes me back to Animal Farm Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
