[DoodleDawg]

The problem with videos like this is you have no idea just how many people she asked who knew the right answer. Were the historical morons the exception or the rule?

[freeandfreezing]

Were the historical morons the exception or the rule?

If you spend time speaking with young adults I think you'll find more evidence for the rule than the exception.

[Albion Wilde]

The problem with videos like this is you have no idea just how many people she asked who knew the right answer.

I think she made that case very adequately, by including two or three students who knew the answers, and then stated that they had Holocaust instruction in their public schools in New Jersey, or had been taken to the Holocaust Museum in Washington on a field trip. She is trying to get Pennsylvania to adopt Holocaust/genocide instruction in public schools, and she went to Pennsylvania colleges to make the video -- UPenn, Penn State, and Temple U were identified by their logos in various scenes. Students who had not received genocide education did not know the answers.

[kabumpo]

The fact that there is anyone - even one person - admitted to any university who doesn’t know basic information about the world wars is shocking enough.

[PowderMonkey]

From personal experience, I can assure you morons are the rule. One of my former colleagues was a product of an urban feeder school to an urban university. She was asked one day to pinpoint the location of Canberra, Australia, using the office's huge wall map of the world. We stood in awkward silence for nearly 20 minutes, as she scoured the map's section detailing the United States. Another, approached me one day to ask, "What language do they speak in New Mexico?" A third approached me for assistance in writing her college term paper. At that juncture, her draft paper for a history course consisted of 20 pages. Each contained an 8x10 photo of a subject from history. She was unable to write a simple caption for each photo. That was her "college level" term paper. She got a "A" on it. She eventually obtained her BA , and was accepted into law school. To be fair, they were not stupid people. They were simply products of their educational system; one of low standards and rubber stamping through the grades year after year...."No child left behind."