> At the beginning of each year, the geography teacher at my school gives her most amusing assignment: In groups, the students have to draw the world, complete with political borders and physical features. The trick is, they can't use any maps or helps of any kind, it's all done from memory. Then those maps go on display for the rest of the term. Talk about worldwide ignorance. Sometimes students forget whole continents.
>
> gabby

Heh. My mother says that in first form at her boarding school, years and years ago, the main part of the Geography final consisted of a blank sheet and those exact same instructions: "Draw a map of the world from memory, complete with political borders and physical features." Her English Orals consisted of reciting and interpreting huge chunks of Shakespeare from memory, too.

Also, I've just found a set of musty old "High School Leaving Exams (Quebec)" for the years 1949 to 1961... Eenteresting.

Wolf "Looks like both Latin, German, and Technical Drawing were required subjects back then" spirit