Harrison Ford sang along with the car radio in Witness
:)
Sadly schools are not teaching old fashion geography either. They are teaching sociology and demographics and calling it geography.
My older sons loved old fashioned maps, as do I, but my middle girls not so much and cannot tell you where some states are, much less countries. They cannot name 4 or 5 major rivers in the US but make straight A’s in “geography”.
Happily that was rectified when we left public skrewl a couple years ago.
Skill in politics will get your butt into a seat at the table.
The problem is that the people who end up with seats at the table do not have to be smart, or competent, or principled. The only thing they know how to do is get a seat at the table.
And then it's time to party, because the work has been accomplished!
I think the rule is that liberals don’t have to know any of this stuff. Nor do they have to know how to spell. But if a Republican misspells potato, he will be crucified for such a major crime. That’s how it works. Liberals can say and do anything and spout factual errors, and nothing will be said. The same for a conservative results in liberal meltdown mode and talk of how stupid such conservative is.
OweBowMao will go down in history for building the intercontinental railroad.
“If Obama does not know where these ports are, how can he deepen them?”
You can fill the universe with what “O” does NOT know. His lack of basic education is apparent in everything he says and is not limited to a weakness in the understanding of geography.
If you cannot READ and/or have NEVER understood what is WORTH reading.... (not EVEN basics-as this author suggests) then your lack of understanding is character-wide and profound.
EVERYTHING in your character/personality is stunted and deformed by this lack of mature understanding, functional knowledge and basic perspective.
If you are a person who was permitted to slide-by throughout your entire educational career, with only a cursory exposure to basics, it’s the same as building a house on sand. Every where and at all times, the building lacks structural integrity.
“O” continually gives himself away on this. His ‘education’ was exceedingly compromised and whole swaths of basic and fundamental information were ignored.
It shows.
He is very like all the young people I know who are smart–mouthed but not smart.
Some people are born stupid; some people go to school for it.
Not only don’t schools teach history and geography, they also don’t teach cursive (handwriting). Each graduating class is dumber than the one before it. Modern education at its very best!