I’m not sure… In 8th grade our social studies teacher was trying to get a feel for where everyone was in geography and picked on students to go up and point out various geographical locations on the giant map on the chalkboard.
He started with really simple ones like “Where is North America? Where is South America?” and barely got through that point because he picked a rich white kid on the basketball team to go point out where “Asia” is on the map and the kid pointed to everywhere BUT asia… North America, South America, Australia, Africa.
The kid was getting really mortified as the rest of the class was laughing harder and harder with each try.
I will never forget that as long as I live because after class I asked him if he was just messing around and he confided he honestly never looked at maps so he didn’t know, but also he didn’t care because he would never need to know that.
but also he didn’t care because he would never need to know that.
I…this is so alien to me, I cannot understand this attitude. I see it everywhere, but it always baffles me. I don’t understand why so many people are so incurious. How can they know that they’ll “never need to know” something when they don’t know it or know how important that information could be?
I’m not sure… In 8th grade our social studies teacher was trying to get a feel for where everyone was in geography and picked on students to go up and point out various geographical locations on the giant map on the chalkboard.
He started with really simple ones like “Where is North America? Where is South America?” and barely got through that point because he picked a rich white kid on the basketball team to go point out where “Asia” is on the map and the kid pointed to everywhere BUT asia… North America, South America, Australia, Africa.
The kid was getting really mortified as the rest of the class was laughing harder and harder with each try.
I will never forget that as long as I live because after class I asked him if he was just messing around and he confided he honestly never looked at maps so he didn’t know, but also he didn’t care because he would never need to know that.
I…this is so alien to me, I cannot understand this attitude. I see it everywhere, but it always baffles me. I don’t understand why so many people are so incurious. How can they know that they’ll “never need to know” something when they don’t know it or know how important that information could be?
I remember my honors English class where the most popular and successful student/athlete learned about the existence of Arabs for the very first time.
It’s always in the last place you look