As far as the young are concerned anything that happened more than 20 years ago is history and dead history at that. American young people can't tell the civil war from the war of independence, the first from the second world war and the Brits are no better. Hardly any of them know who commanded the forces at Waterloo or who it is on top of that column in Trafalgar Square. They are pig ignorant It's a shame but it's a fact.
Perhaps the English Public School (Private School) is the only place where a decent education can be got. They teach Latin and Greek, don't you know.
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