[Wikipedia-l] US Education system (was NPR interview)

[Maru Dubshinki]

On 5/27/05, Alphax <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Christopher Mahan wrote:
> > How do you explain to somebody that Toyota != Toyota Motor
> > Corporation when their level of expertise is limited to US High
> > School education level?
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> Is it true that in the US, students are not taught anything about other
> countries?
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> Alphax

Well, I'm a sort of an expert here on the subject of US students (I
graduate high school in a few days) so I can confidently tell you that
yes, we are taught about other countries, and reasonably well- but
that goes only for the students who actually care and pay attention.
The others, well, all bets are off.


~Maru
And there are depressingly many of the latter.