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Even an 8th grade education should insure that ability
We have dumbed down
What a masters or PhD tells me about an 30/year old applicant is they prefer school to work
You're all laughingly incorrect. The clip in the OP was from 2018 and Kimmel repeated the bit earlier this year, this time using people who all appear to be >40. Some much older than 40. Not to mention good, conservative Republicans from a time when people were taught "...a pretty strict RRR curriculum that included US history, World history, the founding, US geography, and world geography."
I can't wait to hear your excuses and rationalizations now.
(Oh, and a side note to the poster above who wants to eliminate the Department of Education: If you want to call something a "collassal" failure, especially an entity that is involved in education, you should probably first learn how to spell colossal.)
Most people, today can’t even tell you phone numbers of the people in their address book. Forget picking up a road atlas and find their way somewhere. The age and political leaning isn’t a factor anymore. People today rely on their smart phones for just about everything. It is dumbing down people. As far as Jimmy Kimmel....this same guy who is now a PC whining lib is the same guy who cohosted a show called The man show and called the women who were part of the cast Juggies. Jimmy Kimmel has absolutely no credibility with me.
And yes......our education system is a colossal failure. I’ve walked in schools in the LAUSD and the class is being taught in Spanish. No joke.
All 54 countries? That's pretty good! I can go around the coast.
Central and South America are easy - I can name them all. I never got much into the Far East, though.
Sure would love to go to Mongolia.
(During the summer)
The least visited country in the world is Tuvalu (TOO-va-loo).
Education, done properly, continues forever. I still look up words in the dictionary, and am currently reading a biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt. I graduated from high school in 1963.
I love geography and love to challenge myself learning and memorizing countries and facts about them, granted you have to keep up with your skills to keep yourself sharp but I’ve been able to win many a Quiz-Up challenge including almost all of the countries of Africa. It doesn’t mean you are stupid or uninteresting if you don’t know or care about geography but I find it correlates with a curiosity and open mind about learning about the world other than your immediate bubble.
Good luck on a current map pointing out Ceylon, Rhodesia, Upper Volta, Dahomey...I had stamps from all those countries...
Me too...civil wars, etc changed those countries. Ceylon is now Sri Lanka. Used to be Yugoslavia back in the day...now broken up into Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, etc. They used to have Bosnia & Herzegovena stamps back then though. I recall Thailand as "Siam" and Iran as "Persia" in stamp album back then too...Burma is now Myanmar. Not sure if they have Abu Dhabi (never got one from there as a kid) or Vatican City stamps anymore. Amazing how much worldwide geography you will learn from stamp collecting as a kid!
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