Quote:
|
Originally Posted by little_tippler
And to the poster who said that the reason the american geography skills are so bad is the distance, can I just point out that we in Europe are the same distance away from you, just in the opposite direction....get it?
|
IMO the reason Americans are so bad at geography is the way it's taught in schools. Around 7th or 8th grade you take a geography class. You're given some time (usually a day or two, maybe a week) to memorize 10-20 countries. You're tested on them, and then it's never brought up again. It's the kind of quiz you can start studying for about 5 minutes before it's given, get the answers right, and then forget about them by lunch. Since it's never looked at again, why would anyone remember it?