I guess they don’t teach what they taught me in third grade anymore about a 2D map representing a 3D globe. I remember the Greenland example from way back then, that it is much smaller than it looks on a 2D map. I am worried about the level of basic knowledge of our populace. We seem to be getting dumber and dumber.
Unfotunately, it’s the teachers union that keeps ignorant and incompetent “teachers”. Teachers should be teaching kids to be learners, that was the idea of the classical education, to give people the skills to educate themselves throughout their life. Not to insure that someone had tenure.
My wife thought we would save on gas driving from NH down to VA because:
IT WAS ALL DOWN HILL.
I think there were plenty of stupid people back in the day, but they could do less damage overall.