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-------- 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
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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you will be dismembered and
broiled in a garlic sauce.
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