I was talking to my 38 year-old friend--telling about someone on YA asking who the first president was. I thought a person knew that by third grade. Well, she didn't.
I feel a person should at least know the first and sixteenth presidents were. One doesn't have to know the number--just who was in office was the year he or she was born and who is presently in office.
A person doesn't have to know that the Washingtons weren't in the White House, nor that Washington had no biological kids. How can one not know who president #1 was?
Has the world gone mad?
2007-04-28 12:50:21 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
The only thing that I personally find sad is that most immigrants know MORE about US history than most AMERICAN-born people do. I guess when you turn a certain age, which that isn't really relevant, you tend to forget things that were taught in 2nd grade. Like who the first elected US president was(George Washington, he had wooden teeth that were made from his chopped down cherry tree.......I think I made that last part up, but it ties it in really good doesn't it?) and who Lincoln was. Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? Kinda pokes fun at this fact, but they're asking questions on things that most people forgot already and don't use normally. That and they are in front of a live audience and it's probably a lot of pressure. But believe me, the world hasn't gone mad just because of this. It's been mad for a number of years now, you're just now noticing it.
2007-04-28 14:14:01 · answer #1 · answered by superkrogerbaggerman 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
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2016-12-10 14:05:17 · answer #2 · answered by kobayashi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So, yes. I think the world HAS gone mad. I mean, there are lots of people in the world who haven't finished third grade yet, and lots of people who live far from the U.S. who don't even know WHAT a president is, but those aren't the people we're talking about, right? It's the dimwits who have lived in the U.S. all their lives and were educated here and still have no clue. It's scary, isn't it?
2007-04-28 13:03:00 · answer #3 · answered by skip742 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Well, depending on how you count presidents, George Washington could have been the first or the sixteenth.
George was the first to serve after the Constitution was ratified. There were fifteen preceeding him, starting with Peyton Randolph in 1774.
2007-04-28 14:44:48 · answer #4 · answered by istitch2 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I don't think that the world has got mad and has no knowledge of the former U.S. presidents
George Washington was the first
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th
2007-04-28 14:04:20 · answer #5 · answered by soar_2307 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it seems to me that you have to take a survey to find out who does and who doesn't know who were the first and the sixteenth presidents of the U.S.
those people were:
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
2007-04-28 15:24:29 · answer #6 · answered by conde_c_b 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I actually don't think that it's a big deal that some people don't know.Those that live outside the US and those who have just recently moved to the US would really have no reason to know that.
But I agree with you that things about Abraham Lincoln and George Washington should definitely be taught to American school kids. I was taught things about them by second grade.
2007-04-28 12:57:23 · answer #7 · answered by blackbird23 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Actually, the first President of the US was Peyton Randolph.
Washington was the first one elected under the Constitution, but he wasn't the first President. He was about fifteenth.
2007-04-28 13:38:01 · answer #8 · answered by open4one 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Yes, most of these people are those who don't get out much.
They're the ones who plop on the couch and watch T.V. all day.
I have a friend who is a Science teacher at an elementary school and they they don't know the capital of the U.S.
2007-04-28 13:07:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Why should "people in this world" need or want to know who he was ? I do know the answer to the question but it is of no relevance to the majority of people on this planet,except for the colonists who took charge of a prime piece of 'real estate'in 1776.
2007-04-28 13:52:52 · answer #10 · answered by Sibbo 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋