Nov 09 2008
An Incomplete Education
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Growing up, I never attended the same school for more than one year. Seriously? Yes, Seriously!! And we weren’t in the military. So in addition to being an expert mover and always being the new kid on the block, I have always felt like I have some serious gaps in my education.
Some years, we would move in the middle of the school year. Here is an example of how the gaps occurred: Say I’m in 5th grade, my teacher is covering grammar the first half of the year, then covering english literature the second half. We would move and the new school would be doing the opposite, typically I would totally miss out on one topic and get a double dose of another.
Ok, blah blah blah… it sucked, whatever… it could have been worse. So now as an adult I’m finding ways to fill in the gaps. I love the quote: “The truly educated never graduate”, I love learning new things, partly because I feel like I missed out on a lot, but also just because I love learning. I think that is why this book caught my eye.
An Incomplete Education
3,684 things you should have learned but probably didn’t
This book contains the 3,684 facts necessary to solidify an education that may have gaps, spanning 10,000 years of knowledge across disciplines such as art history, economics, film, literature, music, philosophy, politics, psychology, religion, science, and world history. It explains the differences between fission and fusion, the Balkans and the Caucasus, Shiites and Sunnis, deductive reasoning and inductive reasoning, yet also instructs readers how to pronounce inchoate. It provides a brief history of Hamilton’s Federalists and Jefferson’s Democratic Republicans and how both parties became the Republicans and Democrats of today. By Judy Jones and Arthur Wilson. 720 pages. Sounds like a fun book! Check it out 
