Posted on 08/13/2013 4:50:33 AM PDT by lowbridge
A 1912 eighth grade exam surfaced recently at a museum in Kentucky, something that proved interesting when comparing education from 100 years ago and today. According to the CS Monitor on Aug. 12, the exam was donated to the museum and hit the Internet today.
The eighth grade exam was called the Common Exam and was taken by students in the courthouse once or twice a year. If passed, the students could receive their scholarships to attend high school. There were 56 questions, a 40-word spelling quiz, and also a separate reading and writing test.
The areas of study on the exam included arithmetic, geography, physiology, spelling, reading, grammar, civil government and history. Some of the questions are ones that eighth graders today might have problems answering, such as locating which countries in Europe bordered each other.
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Thanks Jim Noble. I needed that. The purpose of public school today is "socialization and equalization," not education. I shall remember your thought when attempting to communicate with the exasperatingly ignorant products of modern public education.
On the other hand, most kids today would be scared to feed chickens or even clean out a chicken roost.
Unfair comparison. The people who wrote that exam never imagined, in a million years, that Trayvon would ever take it.
The kids that took that test knew “0” about politics, computers, lasers, high tech machines, cars, airplanes, diseases etc, etc.
Don’t degrade our kids over a 1912 test. Ridiculous.
Which is easier to operate:
A Honda Civic or a 1912 motorcycle?
Which one is more advanced?
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