Re: CHAT: The [+foreign] attribute

Thomas Wier wrote:
> > Nobody will deny that geography is not taught at all in America.  :(((
>
>I dunno.  I certainly can't say that my school district was
>representative, but we had courses on it, and it was repeatedly
>drilled into our heads most every year, it seemed.  We also spent
>lots of time on English grammar too (I remember most of 6th grade
>and 9th grade English classes consisting of this), although I'm
>not sure how much good it did for most people.
A funny thing about how I was taught geography in school is that they began
with the province, continued with the rest of Swedn, then Norden, then, then
Europe, and then the rest of the world. Since I moved 'tween provinces
between province geography and the rest of Sweden, about the only place on
Earth's which geography I've never had classes in in the province of
Östergötland, where I presently live. (Obviously, they didn't spend much
time on the geography of, say, Indochina, and quite a few tiny island-states
were probably never even mentioned by name.)

                                                        Andreas

PS My personal opinion is that the average Swede has a terribly poor
knowledge of geography. I once (in fifth grade I think) had to spend
considerable time to convince my geography teacher that Vladivostok, despite
a blatant misprint in our geography book, is not situated in China ...

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