This is frankly, quite scary...

Flibster · 28-03-2008, 22:19

My sister is 23...
She's done A levels and is at college. So, she's not immensely thick.

Just found out from lending her Apollo 13 on DVD that she didn't know that man had walked on the moon.

W...T...F... ?!?!?!!?!

She even asked her friends about it for me - out of 6 people she asked, 4 didn't know!

I'm just about speechless about this. Nice to see that 20th century history is being taught well. I've leant her a couple of DVD's on the Apollo missions for her to watch - I wish I could get the complete moon landing videos too. Shame NASA don't actually know where the master tapes are. All we have are the crap copies due to NASA broadcasting in a format the networks couldn't handle and having to bodge a solution.

If I liked little bastards, I'd consider teaching 20th century history myself. WW1, WW2, Cold War, space race, first flight, Russian revolution, discovery of King Tut's tomb, Vietnam etc.....

I'll just have to get back to going to Duxford and helping out there.

Simon/~Flibster

Desmo · 28-03-2008, 22:53

That is absolutely amazing. Do they not teach anything at schools these days? Mind you, is it something that you should really need to be taught at school to actually know it happened? I'm not sure if it is or not. Maybe we take some of our own school education for granted?

divine · 28-03-2008, 23:06

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Originally Posted by Flibster

WW1, WW2, Cold War, space race, first flight, Russian revolution, discovery of King Tut's tomb, Vietnam etc.....

All of which, bar the Egyptian stuff, is taught in GCSE History, which sadly, is an optional GCSE.

Wossi · 29-03-2008, 00:10

I thought I knew a reasonable amount about space travel till I went to the Kennedy Space Centre, learned more that day than I did over my life.

Justsomebloke · 29-03-2008, 00:54

That doesn't surprise me. I am told by young people that i am Intelligent & know everything because i can tell them when & where WWII started & why or something equally simple/well known. You tell them that Apollo 13 had the power of a Calculator & they laugh at you. You tell them about the big bang & they reply "You're Kidding" Talk to them about chaos theory or Quantum mechanics/physics & they fall asleep.
What is bad about all this is i am just about as un educated as you can get & they think i am clever, God help the world & the future of this Planet.

divine · 29-03-2008, 01:07

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Originally Posted by malc30

What is bad about all this is i am just about as un educated as you can get

Whilst I don't know your past well enough to know how literally educated you were via schooling, you are far from an uneducated bloke malc

Blackstar · 29-03-2008, 00:54

They do teach it. It annoys me when people assume 'young people' know nothing about the past, a lot of us do but others make us look like idiots.

Mohinder · 29-03-2008, 03:04

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Originally Posted by Flibster

My sister is 23...
She's done A levels and is at college. So, she's not immensely thick.

Without wishing to sound offensive, the rest of your post seems to suggest her and her friends are, in fact, immensely thick, or at the very least frighteningly ignorant.
Then again, I'm sure there's a million things that she, as an educated type, would be shocked to find out I have no idea about.

Like.. maths

Flibster · 29-03-2008, 17:57

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Originally Posted by Mohinder

Without wishing to sound offensive, the rest of your post seems to suggest her and her friends are, in fact, immensely thick, or at the very least frighteningly ignorant.
Then again, I'm sure there's a million things that she, as an educated type, would be shocked to find out I have no idea about.

Like.. maths

One of them is doing a Phd @ Cambridge in Chemisty at the moment. Another is doing Pure Maths I think.

I'm just shocked that one of the greatest scientific achievements of the 20th century - they didn't know happened....

Del Lardo · 29-03-2008, 18:19

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Originally Posted by Flibster

One of them is doing a Phd @ Cambridge in Chemisty at the moment. Another is doing Pure Maths I think.

I'm just shocked that one of the greatest scientific achievements of the 20th century - they didn't know happened....

That doesn't surprise me for a second. Cambridge is full of highly inteligent people who lack basic common sense and 'real world' experience.

28-03-2008, 22:19	#1
Flibster Moonshine Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 3,388	This is frankly, quite scary... My sister is 23... She's done A levels and is at college. So, she's not immensely thick. Just found out from lending her Apollo 13 on DVD that she didn't know that man had walked on the moon. W...T...F... ?!?!?!!?! She even asked her friends about it for me - out of 6 people she asked, 4 didn't know! I'm just about speechless about this. Nice to see that 20th century history is being taught well. I've leant her a couple of DVD's on the Apollo missions for her to watch - I wish I could get the complete moon landing videos too. Shame NASA don't actually know where the master tapes are. All we have are the crap copies due to NASA broadcasting in a format the networks couldn't handle and having to bodge a solution. If I liked little bastards, I'd consider teaching 20th century history myself. WW1, WW2, Cold War, space race, first flight, Russian revolution, discovery of King Tut's tomb, Vietnam etc..... I'll just have to get back to going to Duxford and helping out there. Simon/~Flibster __________________

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Desmo The Last Airbender Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Pigmopad Posts: 11,915	That is absolutely amazing. Do they not teach anything at schools these days? Mind you, is it something that you should really need to be taught at school to actually know it happened? I'm not sure if it is or not. Maybe we take some of our own school education for granted? __________________

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Justsomebloke The Night Worker Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 5,228	That doesn't surprise me. I am told by young people that i am Intelligent & know everything because i can tell them when & where WWII started & why or something equally simple/well known. You tell them that Apollo 13 had the power of a Calculator & they laugh at you. You tell them about the big bang & they reply "You're Kidding" Talk to them about chaos theory or Quantum mechanics/physics & they fall asleep. What is bad about all this is i am just about as un educated as you can get & they think i am clever, God help the world & the future of this Planet. __________________

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Blackstar Ambassador of Awesome Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Edinburger Posts: 3,676	They do teach it. It annoys me when people assume 'young people' know nothing about the past, a lot of us do but others make us look like idiots. __________________ Jim Garrahy's Fudge Kitchen

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Wossi Absinthe Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: In the middle Posts: 1,385	I thought I knew a reasonable amount about space travel till I went to the Kennedy Space Centre, learned more that day than I did over my life.