I was warming up my logic class with a trivia question before a quiz the following happened:
I asked them which two states had names which contained the entire state name of a different state.
The answer took a while, but eventually Arkansas and West Virginia came out.
At that point a girl in my class boldly proclaimed, "West Virginia is not a state!"
Immediately all eyes came upon her and she quickly started to lose her confidence that West Virginia was really a city. She didn't leave class convinced in the statehood of West Virginia, but hopefully she will figure it out someday soon.
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4 comments:
Americans and geography mix as well as oil and water. For you non-science people it means not at all.
i guess that is almost as bad as the time this one R.A. i knew ended up thinking MO was the abbrevation for montana. and for anonymous, it's not just americans that don't know geography. i had chinese students who couldn't even find their own country on a map.
As Homer Simpson once said, "It's easy to miss Canada on a map . . . all tucked away down there!"
Seriously, not knowing W. Virginia is a state? Pathetic. I mean, I know New Yorkers think they're the center of the universe, but come on.
A follow-up funny:
Another teacher presented his class with a skeptical argument. He then explained that if the argument was good then it means that we don't know much of anything at all. It was then that a snowboarder in the back of the room replied, "that's what my dad's been telling me for years!"
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