-------- Original Message -------- 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. .:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._