Originally Posted by Aladdin Sane

I taught World Geography in public high schools for 13 years. In my classroom students had the opportunity to explore many aspects of almost every country. But like a language learned over a semester in a classroom, geographic knowledge will fade quickly if not used. I suspect (and this poll seems to bear it out) most young people are more interested in video games and reality television than events in Israel. On the other hand I bet most every person polled has some specialty knowledge that few others possess.