Hey my friends it's Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and for a long time I used to teach college history at the University of Nebraska at Carney at some community colleges at a liberal arts college and they were all fun. I like history I like the students I like that academic environment and for the most part it's an awesome experience but one of the

things that I discovered was that there was some pretty shocking knowledge gaps for kids

coming out of high school at that point when I was doing that and I suppose every professor

instructor has something that they get all

fussy about. I'm not letting these youngsters get out of my class

without knowing this. I had to learn it. You're going to have to learn it. This

is important. And I think it's all like dumb and bad and fussy to be that way.

In reality, I still think this.

There are certain things that students need to learn if they're going to be given

three credit hours of college credit and given subject.

And so when I taught American history, I would always do extra credit quiz questions

where I'd kind of try to get a feel for what the incoming freshmen and even the sophomores knew or didn't know.

And pretty early on I realized, oh wow, there's some huge knowledge gaps here in terms of American government and the history of

the evolution of our government and how that all works.

And maybe one of the most shocking, how can you not know moments, was a couple weeks before the election in 2008 that's the one between

McCain and Obama I just simply asked the students as an extra credit question

Hey give me the name of the presidential and vice

presidential candidate for both the Democrat Party and the Republican Party.

And less than half of the class, all of whom are eligible voters and reported that they would

be voting, less than half of the class were able to do that.

Just barely half of the class were even able to name the presidential candidates on either

side and some of the answers that just blew my mind that actually I think

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