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June 14, 2013
"The hole in the boat: "
America is losing its historic literacy. Recently some 556 seniors surveyed at 55 of the nation’s top colleges
-- only 60 percent placed the American Civil War in the correct half of the 19th century. Only 34 percent identified George Washington as the American general at the Battle of Yorktown. Thirty-four percent thought it was Ulysses S. Grant. At 78 percent of the institutions polled, no history whatsoever was required in the undergraduate program. Historian David McCullough said, “We are raising a generation of young Americans who are historically illiterate.” Doug Ross @ Journal: TRANSCRIPT: Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes' Complete Speech After Accepting the Bradley Prize
Posted by gerardvanderleun at June 14, 2013 12:08 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Its worse than that. There's a generation that finds any amount of text over about 150 characters to be "too long, didn't read" and simply ignore anything of depth or significance. They can technically read but are effectively illiterate.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 14, 2013 1:08 PM
“We are raising a generation of young Americans who are historically illiterate.”
And this is on purpose. When even university grads know no actual history, the Marxist-dialectic version spoon fed to them by the Left is what they swallow.
Again - this is not by accident. It is by intention.
Posted by: Donald Sensing at June 14, 2013 1:33 PM
Sheep for the slaughter, and they will scream at the top of their lungs for the "right" to be a sheep.
Posted by: Doug at June 15, 2013 9:19 AM
All according to plan.
Posted by: sTevo at June 16, 2013 4:56 AM
All according to plan.
Posted by: sTevo at June 16, 2013 4:58 AM
Yes, Sensing, by intention.
“When an opponent declares, ‘I will not come over to your side,’ I calmly say, ‘Your child belongs to us already… What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.’“ - Adolf Hitler
Posted by: chasmatic at June 16, 2013 2:46 PM