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  with our education system.
  
  This taken from the Times...
  
  """"......... an online poll asked 1,400 children, aged from 6 to 14, some basic astronomical questions.
  
  Not only did a significant number confuse Neil Armstrong with the statesman (Winston Churchill) who led the Allies to victory, it also revealed that 72 per cent were unable to identify the Moon in a series of pictures.
  
  Saturn also proved a problem, with only 44 per cent noting the giveaway rings. Two in five thought Mars was simply a bar of chocolate. A third of children believed the Earth was not an official planet (35 per cent) and 33 per cent thought the surface of Mars was blue.
  
  Almost two thirds (60 per cent) were unable to say how many planets were in the solar system, while 59 per cent could not name the planets in order. """"""""""""""""
  
  I just find it amazing that in this day and age there is so much ignorance around. Something is missing in our society, has the education system totally given up on imparting some basic knowledge?
  
  Its not as if this is the first time a survey has demonstrated this kind of thing. Another one recently found that most respondants thought that Winston Churchill was a fictional figure and something to do with insurance....
  
  Educationalists should be ashamed of themselves.

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