Posted in Boys, Heinlein Maneuver, tagged Bush, Citizenship, Civics, Education, Heinlein, History on October 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Young people today have large and disturbing gap in their knowledge of history and civics.
One-third of fourth graders do not know what it means to “pledge allegiance to the flag.”
Twenty-eight percent of eighth graders do not know the reason why the Civil War was fought.
Nearly one in five high school seniors think that Germany was [...]
Posted in Heinlein Maneuver, tagged Heinlein, Knowledge, Latin, Phrases on October 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I was asked, by an educated adult, why my blog is called, Veni, Vidi, Voce. I replied that it was a play on Caesar’s “Veni, vidi, vici”, “I came, I saw, I conquered”. My reply was met with a blank stare and further conversation revealed that the individual had never heard the phrase [...]
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