Education News – Sherlynn Summers
“A survey commissioned by British television channel Gold uncovered 20 percent of the teen population in Britain believing former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill to be a fictional character. On the contrary, many teens accepted imaginary characters such as Sherlock Holmes, King Arthur and Eleanor Rigby as real people in history. The survey, which was carried out with around 3,000 British people below 20 years old, concluded that a large number of British teens possessed an astounding lack of basic historical knowledge – knowledge which was well embraced by older generations…”(more)