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To: Hot Tabasco
What's amazing is that this was discovered over 300 years ago ...Just who educated these guys?

A few nights ago, I happened upon an old-time radio program that sounded like something made pre-1950s but I may be off a bit on that. Regardless, it was an announcer who was asking all kinds of science, math, arts etc. questions of a group of smart kids of varying ages. It was simply stunning to hear these kids talk their way through complex mathematical questions, recite Shakespeare at length, know history at a level few would today and go into all kinds of details on scientific matters. The kids all sounded like they were between say 6 and 12 years old. I'd like to know what the program was so that I could shoot it off to my kids to let them know what the 'expectations and standards' were years ago.....

15 posted on 11/21/2018 1:50:06 PM PST by hecticskeptic
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To: hecticskeptic
That was "The Quiz Kids." I remember listening to it in the 1940s. These were not just ordinarily educated Public school youths.
19 posted on 11/21/2018 2:24:25 PM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: hecticskeptic
Correction:

"The Quiz Kids."

20 posted on 11/21/2018 2:27:06 PM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: hecticskeptic

Ping me if you figure it out.


21 posted on 11/21/2018 3:44:03 PM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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