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Posted: **26 Feb 2008, 16:04**

granberry wrote:
dagosd2000 wrote: Today,a young person's frame of reference and who they recognize as being important is scary.
Gandhi, Churchill 'myth', Sherlock real for Britons
ExpressIndia.com 2 26 2008

http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news ... gt/268868/

Mahatma Gandhi never existed while Britain's wartime Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill was a fictional character.
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According to a survey carried out in Britain, many believe that Mahatma Gandhi and Churchill are just mythical figures ...

In fact, almost a quarter of the population have the popular notion that Churchill, "the greatest Briton of all time", was made up.

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In contrast, a number of fictitious characters like Sherlock Holmes, King Arthur and Eleanor Rigby were given real life status.

You notice there is very little real information in the 'article'.

Nothing about how the people were selected, how the questions were framed etc.

It says '3000 teens' were 'questioned'. Yet from that they concluded that 1/4 of the population of the UK believe Churchill never existed.

Granberry, that's the sort of 'logic' that appeals to simpletons like you?

Posted: **28 Feb 2008, 00:00**

Diamond WEAPON wrote: TV isn't he problem, the education system is the biggest problem, along with parents who don't give a shit. Lots of parents don't really take an interest in their child or their education, so they're often free to walk around ignorant.

I have not found that parents don't care about their child's schooling. Rather, they care what their child's grades are. Parents become obsessed with the graded their child is earning in school, but no what they are actually learning.

We have becomes a much more grade centered education system, but not a learning centered educational system.

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