Posts Tagged ‘geography’

It isn’t just History that is being lost.

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

This article in the NY Times points out that Geography is also suffering from the “Social Studies Syndrome.” Nobody knows nothing.

A popular video on YouTube shows Kellie Pickler, the adorable platinum blonde from “American Idol,” appearing on the Fox game show “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?” during celebrity week. Selected from a third-grade geography curriculum, the $25,000 question asked: “Budapest is the capital of what European country?”

Ms. Pickler threw up both hands and looked at the large blackboard perplexed. “I thought Europe was a country,” she said.