Eighth Grade Education circa - 1895 - - (long)

[dumbledore11214]

> Kemper now:
> I'm not really impressed by the test.  I had to learn similar things
> except for orthography, which I would've said was bone-pictures but
> seems more akin to linguistics (sort of), as well as Kansas... though
> I had an ear and eye full of Nevada, the most vile state in the Union.
>  Plus, I had to learn life science, world history, algebra, intro to
> lit and P.E. ...Okay, I didn't learn PE, but I spent time resenting
> it.  I could've been reading!

Alla:

It is funny. See I am not  much impressed either, however, I would not 
be able to answer quite a few things. Because I definitely had to learn 
quite a lot of those things, including orthography, geography etc etc, 
only as related to different language and different country. But sure 
right now I can answer quite a few of those even as related to English, 
heh.

But yes, we definitely learned many of these subjects in that level of 
detail, no question about it.

And while I would not be able to describe all trade centers in US (as 
they were in 19 century I guess?) I would certainly be able to name 
many capitals of european countries, I would be able to show them on 
the map, and to draw their location on the blank map from memory. Those 
were type of tests we did in geography class when I was that age.

While I still won't be able to define all of those prefixes in English, 
only some of them, I can analyse parts of the words and sentences in 
russian, etc.

I love orthography questions though, I am going to print them and work 
out those I do not know.

Alla