On 4/28/2013 11:25 AM, Ed Huntress wrote:

Geography was never particularly stressed in NY while I was in school, it
was always part of social studies.

That has something to do, perhaps, with why most Americans don't even
know where Afghanistan is. Or Ohio. g

I attended school in NY and NJ, so I know what you mean. In contrast,
in Maryland, where I also attended school, it was an important
subject.

Today, it's pathetic. We're producing a generation that knows how to
take a test, but not much about what to do with it.

My problem with the geography that I learned in grade school in the
early '60's is that very little has the same name any more. South
America is the same. British Honduras is Belize, Burma is Myanmar,
Ceylon is Sri Lanka, and I've long since given up on keeping track of
what is what in most of Africa.

And I still can't find Grand Fenwick or Ruritania on maps.

Although I'm fairly sure that Lilliput is just off the shore of Southern
California.

David