American Civics

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American Civics Quiz
http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/resources/quiz.aspx

What's more sad is that our elected officials, in general, know less about American civics than the average citizen: http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/2008/additional_finding.html

In the last almost 75 years in America, there has been so much more concentration on math and science that we've lost our focus on our beginnings. I, personally, as a historian, feel that, without considerable knowledge of how America began and where we came from, we cannot progress and fight to ensure the very rights for which we faught tremendous battles to gain in the first place. The fact that many Americans don't understand free-market capitalism or the powers of the federal government's individual branches really is remarkable and quite saddening - people don't know how their elected officials and government works for them. [The worst part: "Officeholders and non-officeholders find it equally difficult to identify the three branches of government. Only 49% of each group can name the legislative, executive, and judicial."]

So not only do we need to focus on the math and science that push America's technological future forward, but we also need to fully comprehend HOW America works, where we started, and what got us to where we are today in order to keep moving forward. They always say, "learn from your mistakes." Well, we can't do that without knowing what those mistakes were. Let's learn about the mistakes, and work to prevent them from happening again - make America, and Americans, better. Learn your history.