We constantly see surveys that reveal this ignorance, especially among our high school students,78 percent of whom, in a recent nationwide multiple-choice test, identified Abraham Lincoln as 'a kind of lobster.' That's right: more than three quarters of our nation's youth could not correctly identify the man who invented the telephone. β¨ Dave Barry (2010). Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States, p.8, Ballantine Books
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