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Historical illiteracy...among tour guides?
It's one thing for ACTA to report, as we did in Losing America's Memory, that an alarming number of college graduates are woefully ignorant of basic American History. It is quite another to report, as this article from the Wall Street Journal does, that such unfamiliarity is apparently trickling down into the ranks of the tour guides in Philadelphia--the site of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the adoption of the US Constitution! While the Journal's piece focuses on the controversy over whether the guides in the City of Brotherly Love should be required to pass a history test, the issue of historical illiteracy is much bigger. Our colleges and universities--most of which do not require American history--must do a better job in rectifying the matter, as those who believe America can remain both ignorant and free expect, in the words of Thomas Jefferson, "what never was and never will be."
Posted by Sandra E. Czelusniak on March 31, 2009 at March 31, 2009 04:44 PM
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