The Astonishing Ignorance of Young Adults

Daily Signal ^ | October 26, 2016 | Walter E. Williams

[detective]

Do you wonder why Sen. Bernie Sanders and his ideas are so popular among American college students? The answer is that they, like so many other young people who think they know it all, are really uninformed and ignorant. You say, “Williams, how dare you say that?! We’ve mortgaged our home to send our children to college.”

Let’s start with the 2006 geographic literacy survey of youngsters between 18 and 24 years of age by National Geographic and Roper Public Affairs.

Less than half could identify New York and Ohio on a U.S. map. Sixty percent could not find Iraq or Saudi Arabia on a map of the Middle East, and three-quarters could not find Iran or Israel. In fact, 44 percent could not locate even one of those four countries. Youngsters who had taken a geography class didn’t fare much better.

[Cuttnhorse]

Most can't spell common three and four letter words.

One of my major frustrations with the young. My last job was in Canada and I was the grand poohbah on a Yuge construction project and had a lot of various department heads reporting to me...often in written format.

I was astounded at how few could write a three paragraph progress report that was coherent and not full of grammatical errors. I had several kids, (many in their 30's) ask me what they could do to advance their careers, and I would tell them to learn a little basic English!!

[rey]

And you don’t find many, if not most lacking at least in some way if not all?

[gnarledmaw]

Now theres a phrase that flat out pisses me off every time I see it. The Most Naive Generation are primarily resposible for accepting these ignorant socialist positions and allowing them to become institutionalized here. They bravely went to fight socialism over there then liked it so much they fought like hell to make god damned sure that it took root here.

Greatest Generation, my ass.