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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (248790)	4/17/2002 4:10:42 PM
From: Kevin Rose	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

I know of no reason for someone to memorize the state capitols. Instead, they should be teaching kids HOW to learn, where to look for information, and how to reach a logical conclusion. Granted, some things just need to be memorized. But the trend to rote learning will lead us down a path that has been traveled by Japan: lots of memorization, little unique, innovative thinking.

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (248790)	4/17/2002 4:29:57 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The reason that today's kids cannot find California, Canada, Washington, D.C., much less the Persian Gulf or Vietman on a globe or world map is parents who find the subject of Geography irrelevant. Then, when people from those far corners of the earth murder Americans by the thousands, the soft-headed American is easier on posters like rich4alqueda when they defend Palastinian suicide bombers. Where, on the globe, are the former Axis powers of WWII? Where are the 3 countries of the current 'Axis of Evil"? Not important? Whatever you say...