Reviving the thread by quoting from an article about a new book titled Non Campus Mentis: World History According to College Students:
- "Hitler's instrumentality of terror was the Gespacho."
- "The Civil Rights movement in the U.S.A. turned around the corner with Martin Luther Junior's famous 'If I had a hammer speech.' "
- During the Carter administration, the U.S. faced the "Iran Hostess Crisis."
- "Joan of Arc was famous as Noah's wife."
- "Christianity was just another mystery cult until Jesus was born."
- "The airplane was invented and first flown by the Marx brothers"
- "Judyism has one big God named Yahoo."
- "China has so many Chinese that forced birth patrol became required. This is where people are allowed to reproduce no more than one half of themelves."
- "During the Dark Ages it was mostly dark."
- "Another problem was that France was full of French people."
- "John Calvin Klein translated the Bible into American so the people of Geneva cour read it."
- "Revolers demanded liberty, equality and fraternities."
The author does not conclude that this illustrates a decline in education. "I don't really see a difference over time . . .," [Anders] Henriksson said. "I would be so bold as to say you could go back to the 1930s and find stuff like this."
