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Full story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...itter-users-just-Titanic-really-happened.html
Must be a mind-blowing revelation for them.
when the movie came out, the News and Observer used to do an "Overheard" section on the paper. One of them was two girls standing in line to see the movie and one says "I heard the scene where it sinks is really intense" (or somethign to that effect) and the other girl looks at her, dumbfounded, and says "You mean it SINKS?! why did you tell me how it ends!?"
Does this say anything about our public education system? Does it say anything about parents teaching their kids? Notice the tweets that suggest that no one ever told them about the Titanic. Of course, that reveals a voracious appetite for reading.
There are a lot of things kids should be learning in our schools besides the Titanic. What this may reveal is a generation gap in common knowledge and language. The Titanic is the source of several phrases, terms, and colloquialisms in everyday life. Maybe those girls just don't get them but they probably don't know them. It also reflects the dominance of that film. It's swallowed up all the actual facts that came before it.
i'm curious as to why some of you find it so shocking that some kids today don't know about a ship that sank 100 years ago that didn't even so much as cause a war
Because it was a momentous cultural moment in history, and we learn about it for precisely the same reason that we study the gilded age.
i'm curious as to why some of you find it so shocking that some kids today don't know about a ship that sank 100 years ago that didn't even so much as cause a war