Joshua Foer Quotes

1987: "We Cannot Assume That Young People Today Know Things That Were Known In The Past By Almost Every Literate Person In The Culture." Hirsch Has Argued That Students Are Being Sent Out Into The World Without The Basic Level Of Cultural Literacy That Is Necessary To Be A Good Citizen (what Does It Say That Two Thirds Of American Seventeen-year-olds Can't Even Tell You Within Fifty Years When The Civil War Occurred?), And What's Needed Is A Kind Of Educational Counterreformation That Reemphasizes Hard Facts.

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