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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm 40 and had no idea who he was.  I would know Sally Ride or Neil Armstrong. [/quote]
This. [/quote]

Really?  That is pretty pathetic.  [/quote]

Ok you want more pathetic?  I'm 50, and didn't realize why he was famous (knew he was an astronaut) and my dad worked for NASA.  Just one more casualty of my parents' divorce, which basically turned me into a latch-key kid with a crappy education. Did not learn all the cool science stuff or second language my dad knew, or my mom's cooking/knitting/different second language/etc. (Although to be fair, I spent part of it in Canada so probably missed out on the astronaut lesson in school)

I will ask my kids tonight--per the American way, I've tried to give them what I didn't get growing up.[/quote]

I think you are smarter than the "know it all, sickened by American stupidity pp" because you acknowledge and are aware of what you know and don't know. The only way to expand your knowledge and learn something new is to accept your lack of knowledge in most spheres of life. Only smart people know and accept that what they know is just a small fraction of possible knowledge to strive towards.

"It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospect."  Nikola Tesla
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