Teachers, at least in big city schools, gave up years ago, even in
the best schools. About 20 years ago, a good friend who taught 8th
grade social studies in a pretty good New York public school showed
me a quiz he gave after his unit on Egypt. There were 10
fill-in-the-blank questions, including:
The main river of Egypt is the ____.
The rules of Egypt were the ______.
They were buried in huge tombs called the _____.
Simple-minded for 8th grade, you say? Then I noticed, written along
the bottom margin, the words "Nile," "Pharaohs" and "Pyramids." He
told me that without having the answers, his students could never
answer the questions.
The Decline and Fall of the American Empire is proceeding apace.
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