Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Edward Caliguri wrote: > BTW - I just asked my 4 and a half year old where the Pacific Ocean was - he > said it was the "blue on the left!" --- I knew we should have gotten the > kids place mats with developer times and formulas on 'em instead! > EC Well done to your boy. I just had some fun with the latest issue of National Geographic, in which there is a quiz--you have to pick out 11 Asian countries on a map of Asia without names. All the countries in question are in the news a lot--Afghanistan, India, Israel, etc. They tried this on samples of 18-24 year olds in 8 countries. The best was Germany, with an average of 6.8, the worst Mexico with 2.something, and the next-to-last the USA. Given all that, I was quite pleased that my 13-year old son was able to point out 7 of the 11 countries. Amazing what a little old-fashioned education can do... Nathan - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch mobile: +41 78 732 1430 Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html