Unlearning the myth of American innocence

Re:Unlearning the myth of American innocence by crisnoble on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @09:25AM (#14957552)

My school taught world geography in 7th grade (US public school). We learned every country and a capitol, every mountain range, desert, ocean and river across the entire globe. I think maybe only 50% of that has been retained nearly 20 years later, but still we did learn (well at least temporarily memorize) it.

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Re:Unlearning the myth of American innocence by Sean1708 on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @09:37AM (#14957660)

> We learned every country and a capitol, every mountain range, desert, ocean and river across the entire globe.

This sounds like a very shallow style of geography, did you not do any social geography?

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Re:Unlearning the myth of American innocence by ionised on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @11:42AM (#14958988)

He did say 7th grade.

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Re:Unlearning the myth of American innocence by Sean1708 on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @12:23PM (#14959433)

7th grade is about 13 years old, right? I think I did social geography when I was about 13, I definitely wasn't any older 14 because I didn't do GCSE geography.

Edit: In case you were interested this[0] is an example of the kind of stuff we learn when we're 11-14 in Britain.

[0]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/subjects/zrw76sg

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Re:Unlearning the myth of American innocence by ionised on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @05:15AM (#14966829)

I am British (31 now).

I can't remember year 7 and 8 geography very well, though that all sounds familiar.

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