Still, it reminds me once again of the comic:
By the way, MSNBC has a geography quiz located here...
Posted on 05/02/2006 5:23:50 PM PDT by DaveLoneRanger
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- After more than three years of combat and nearly 2,400 U.S. military deaths in Iraq, nearly two-thirds of Americans aged 18 to 24 still cannot find Iraq on a map, a study released Tuesday showed.
The study found that less than six months after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, 33 percent could not point out Louisiana on a U.S. map.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Still, it reminds me once again of the comic:
By the way, MSNBC has a geography quiz located here...
Hey! What's the problem? All we need is more money so our school systems can operate properly. /sarcasm off
On the MSNBC quiz, I missed questions 1, 7 and 8. Not too bad, considering, but it's still a 70%, C.
Priorities. Find the right clothing store at the mall, then maybe find Iraq on a map.
missed GA....I guessed PA
I never knew that and I am REAL good with geography
I got 80% on that quiz. Not bad.
Missed the Georgia question too ....also guessed Penn.
Ditto.
Missed "land mass" ((PA)
and "frankfort KY"
Woohoo, 90%. I also missed the GA/PA one.
I also guessed PA...
Both of my kids are that way and they're in their 30's.
My daughter doesn't know directions either. If she gets too far from home she's in danger of never finding her way back.
Once she was headed for the airport in St. Louis. The "normal" offramp to get there was closed. She got so lost that she called me (in California) to help her figure out where she was and where she needed to go to reach her destination. That was a really interesting phone call.
"Hey, I said I was a socialist and a progressive, not a geographer! Besides, singling our 2/3 of my generation as ignorant is divisive and leads to an erosion of equity! How can I learn about geography, when gender equity and the history of feminism consumes all my class time...."
Cosmo somewhere in the University of California university system
Ah well I got six out of six on CNN's quiz.
Same here.
lol!
I missed that one too (my only mistake). ....guessed FL. Tough question -- GA, FL, and PA are similar in area.
I was homeschooled, and I had geography 101 in college. We did learn about cultures and all that, but they also tested you before and after class with questions about the Iraq war, to find out if the instructor was successful in indoctrinating you against the war. One of the test's questions was "what mistakes did we make in the Iraq war?" I kid you not.
In the 7th grade, circa 1959, Geography was a mandated class. Once a week we had to submit a hand drawn map of a country or state. We had to show capitol city, major cities, major rivers, mountains, and major resources as well as longitude and latitude lines. That was the only homework assignment we had for the week.
In the early 80's friends' honor student high schooler identified Panama and Lebanon as being neighboring countries. On questioning she revealed that her sources were the TV news maps
Oh, I aced the MSNBC test because of 7th grade geography.
I remember having a jigsaw puzzle of the U.S. when I was 3 or 4 years old. (Got one of the world soon afterward. ....although the tiny nations were either omitted or added to adjacent larger ones). Great learning tool. Learn when you're young and it stays with you forever.
Did you answer "allowing the MSM anywhere near the place?" ....or "messing around with the UN for 6 months leading up to it." ;)
Some Americans can't even tell the difference between Switzerland and the Czech Republic. 
My brother and I had "Game of the States." I don't remember if we actually played the game itself more than once or twice. Instead, we used the cards as flash cards and drilled each other on state info.
Nope; there were very specific mistakes that he taught us in the classroom. So he basically wanted us to repeat back what he told us. I responded parroting back what he wanted to know (so I'd get the score) and then wrote "but others argue" this-and-such.
Teachers (and not necessarily my geography teacher, but teachers in general) seem to have the wrong impression about their job. We HIRED them to do a job for us. Instruct us on a certain subject to give us the proper educational requirements for a degree. Students are HIRING teachers to teach them. Teachers seem to believe they are little godlets and have been appointed reign of a kingdom, in which the subjects must be taught the proper truth. Not all teachers do, but many/most.
Of course, relying on that, you would still believe in a USSR, which, when it dissolved, created a massive revamping of the geography, and all those little countries which gave me the most grief.
Doesnt it make you wonder WHAT the he!! they do all day in school? This was an easy test....
But they're darn good at social mapping and putting down the United States.
10/10.
1972 high school grad who still makes her MBA daughter marvel at her knowledge.
The lefties LOVE saying that though - remember how they kept using that in Vietnam - "Kids are dying in a place they can't find on a map" Ridiculous
They learn that Republicans are racists/fascists/sexists/homophobes who aim to destroy the environment, kill all the world's "people of color," and deprive women of the "right to choose." ....and of course they learn how to put rubbers on bananas.
yep...that one is simply a fact I never studied
i taught my kids capitals by 2nd grade
later we did world capitals
it's like reading old encyclopedias...some kids dig it
I did
I had those puzzles too. They were two of my favorite "toys".
Hi Spetz
long time no see
These are the same pinheads who are telling the pollsters, "Like we should get the..duh...troops... out of Viet... I mean Iraq, Dude. It's a quag...a quag...it's really swampy in that Iraq jungle...Man. Got a joint?"
Once I got into a discussion with a woman who asked for my advice. Their family was traveling to Spain for the Christmas holidays. She asked me for recommendations for books for her kids. I told her she should get some Spanish wook books for kids so they could at least have a background for the language. The she declared, "they don't speak Spanish in Spain, they speak Spanish in Mexico!" I then had to explain to her that Spanish was the language spoken in Spain. Can you believe it? Then I explained it will be quite a while riding on the plane to Europe so they should find something to pass the time. She again declared, "Spain isn't in Europe!"
....oh well
She's prime material for one of The Tonight Show's "Jaywalking All-Stars."
Still here. Nice to see you too ....how's the Landrover? Still having issues?
I'd think you were joking, but I had this conversation with the same MBA daughter mentioned upthread.
Daughter: What's going on?
Me: Not much. Bob is in Sweden.
D: Oh wow! Sweden. What country is that in?
M: Umm...
I got all 18--and, no, my name isn't Rand or McNally.
OkAAAy.
missed GA....guessed PA. May have been a bit of bias there. ;-)
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And that's all I've got to say about that.
Who needs geography when we've got GOOGLE MAPS!!
Someone I know thinks Seattle is another country. Well, I guess he's got a point.
Americans seem to have a ten minute attention span and a few months' memory.
That statement has been true for at least 30 years...
Americans seem to have a ten minute attention spanAre you STILL on this thread? I'd practically forgotten that I'd posted it earlier today!
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