Ellen Wallace
Media ::
“The survey of primary and secondary school children in the UK suggests there is some confusion about key scientific achievements.” The BBC put this delightful sentence halfway through an article that starts out saying that one in 10 children in the UK believe the queen invented the telephone.
My guess is that the two, the queen and phone, seem equally archaic if you’re 10 years old and messaging your pals to ask who invented the phone because some twit of an adult is asking you for the answer.
The article refers to the results of a March poll of 1, 000 children in the UK.
Posted by :: Ellen Wallace on 13 March 2010 at 22:27 | permalink
GenevaLunch, 13 March 2010.
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