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O'Neill wrote in message <362bb102.4625710@news.concentric.net>...
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>you'd be surprised how many lawyers have never read the constitution.

Somehow, I don't think I'd be surprised...

>the ignorance level of the public in the U.S. concerning such things
>is frightening.

Yes! Fortunately, I'm not one of the ignorant, just temporarily stupid when
I get too tired... :-(  ;-)

>I just did an impromptu quiz of one of my office workers.  She's
>unable to name the current vice president, she believes that New York
>has three senators, she can't name them but thinks Al Gore might be
>one of them, and she has no idea how many senators New Jersey has.
>
>This is not at all atypical.  Howard Stern regularly quizzes models
>and celebrities about such matters and obtains similar results.

Jay Leno does something similar with people on the street, though it's not
always about politics.

It's scary how poorly educated a lot of college freshmen are. Here at
Montana State, there's an office called "Advance by Choice." Very vague and
misleading name that is -- it runs the remedial English and math classes
(we're talking well below basic algebra here) which all have 00x class
numbers (MATH 002, for example). I think that's very appropriate -- "double
zero" classes -- the college students who are zeroes since they need such
classes, and the schools who are zeroes: the high schools for giving them
diplomas, and the universities that waste all-too-scarce funds teaching
students who obviously have no business being in college in the first place.

Larry