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Originally Posted by Ziroc
The Tonight show with Jay Leno does this (Don't like Leno--I like Conan) but man, most people didn't even know what the Vice President's name was!
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The thing about the Tonight show questions is; they are usually about things that an adult should know. The game show, if I understand correctly, is asking adults to remember something they learned a long time ago.
I have a dial-up connection and I am not able to see the video, so I cannot comment on what happened in it.
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This is the issue I have with education in schools, too many general facts that will serve about 1-5% of your class in their lifetime if at all.
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I do not necessarily agree with this statement. I have three children and the oldest is in 4th grade. It seems to me that the basic ideology the schools have is to teach a child not just things they will maybe use one day, but to teach them how to learn and retain knowledge. Once someone gets to higher education they are given a choice, sort of, on what they want to learn.