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Subject:        RE: MAPS-L: geographical illiteracy
Date:   Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:24:25 -0400
From:   Stone, Howard <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>


Don't get me started on G.I.! On at least two occasions (maybe three),
while traveling through the rural western US, when I told someone I was
from Rhode Island, the person asked me what state it was in.

I was guilty of some G.I. myself many years ago. Until my fourth-grade
teacher enlightened me, I thought that the Equator was an imaginary lion
running around the earth.

Howard Stone
Brown University Library





-------- Original Message --------
Subject:        Re: geographical illiteracy
Date:   Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:20:00 -0400
From:   Michael Holt <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum
<[log in to unmask]>

>  Even the travel industry comments on American geographical
illiteracy

>  http://www.travelindustryreview.com/news/2443


A good friend of mine is a psychologist.  He tests for awareness by
asking where Brazil is located on a globe in his office.  He told me
that about a quarter of those he tests can find it.  I admit he works on
disabilities only, but only a minority are "mentally challenged."  It
may be worse than we realize, if we include adults.


Michael, who can find Frenchburg, Kentucky
--
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you will be dismembered and
broiled in a garlic sauce.

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