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Any news on Peace Talks
Dina:
--- Quote from: groinkick on February 09, 2019, 02:33:19 AM ---lol no. It's real knowledge, even if it's not important to some people.
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^ this.
morriswalters:
--- Quote from: groinkick on February 09, 2019, 02:33:19 AM ---lol no. It's real knowledge, even if it's not important to some people.
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Not when all it means is place names. But that's an opinion. YMMV.
Arjan:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on February 09, 2019, 04:07:31 AM ---Not when all it means is place names. But that's an opinion. YMMV.
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A lot of knowledge is like that. No particular understanding is needed and you can drill it into young children’s heads. But that does not mean it is always useless knowledge, not if you build upon it.
A place name is just a word and the location is just part of its meaning. The more words you know the easier you can read and look up the ones you do not know.
And it tells you something about your interests. If you follow the news and took an effort to find out where that flood or earthquake really was. If you read a history book and looked at a map. Or maybe you just know more about the geography of middle earth than this one, not everyone is interested in everything.
KurtinStGeorge:
--- Quote from: Arjan on February 09, 2019, 05:39:38 AM ---A lot of knowledge is like that. No particular understanding is needed and you can drill it into young children’s heads. But that does not mean it is always useless knowledge, not if you build upon it.
A place name is just a word and the location is just part of its meaning. The more words you know the easier you can read and look up the ones you do not know.
And it tells you something about your interests. If you follow the news and took an effort to find out where that flood or earthquake really was. If you read a history book and looked at a map. Or maybe you just know more about the geography of middle earth than this one, not everyone is interested in everything.
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Yes, to this. When I was very young, maybe five or six, someone gave me a puzzle. It was a wooden puzzle with fifty pieces, the fifty states of the U.S. Of course Hawaii was just a square with the islands painted on it that you stuck off in its own little square on the left hand side of the map. Canada was included only so you could stick Alaska next to it, and the individual Canadian provinces weren't puzzle pieces though I believe they were drawn in on the map. The capital city of each state was drawn on each puzzle piece. So; for example, I learned that Bismarck was the capital city of North Dakota even though I had never been there. (And still haven't.)
You could say I didn't learn much from this puzzle, but as I grew up, if I heard a news story that a tornado had done great damage near Topeka, I knew that was in Kansas and I had a rough idea how far away it was from me.
Several years later my grandmother decided to she wanted to clear some space and she asked family members if they wanted any old books before she gave them to Goodwill or just threw them away. I picked out a large World Atlas mostly because it had a large number of great photos in it, but it also told a story because it was published in 1942. The map of most of Europe was one large Nazi flag. I don't remember if it was named "German Empire" or "Nazi Occupied Europe." There was an equally large Japanese Rising Sun flag spread out over a large part of the Pacific Ocean, South East Asia and China labeled "Japanese Empire." I knew a little about the Second World War, but seeing that book made it much more real for me. I think that Atlas made me want to learn more about history in general.
Dina:
I really enjoyed your post, Kurtis.
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