Editorial: Survey Saddens Staff
From one generation to the next, people are supposed to gain more knowledge. As the new millennium approaches, more information is available than ever before. Theoretically, college students should know more than the previous generation of college students did.
According the Apache staff millennium survey, this is not the case. Students who took the survey were asked to identify the 10 most important people of the millennium. The top 10 were ranked on a recent television program on A & E.
Three of the students who took the survey couldn’t correctly identify William Shakespeare.
What may be even more disturbing is that one of the 329 students surveyed couldn’t correctly identify even one of the ten. Sixty-eight of the students who took the survey could only identify four of the 10.
The poor results of the survey could mean one of two things. Perhaps students took our survey lightly, and did not answer the questions to the best of their ability, thus creating the erroneous and poor results. But maybe the survey was accurate and students really don’t know that much about history. Any history teacher knows that if you don’t pay attention to history, you are doomed to repeat it.
Someday a person from IVCC could become one of the 10 most important people of the millennium. It’s too bad most students at this school won’t have a clue who that person is.