Pupils in a lost world

Published date01 January 2021
Date01 January 2021
Publication titleDaily Star (England)
And some even thought the Empire State Building was in London.

A poll of 2,000 schoolchildren, aged 5-11, also found 7% couldn't name England's capital city.

Just 21% knew that the Acropolis was in Athens, only 19% that the Taj Mahal was in India and 25% that Red Square was in Russia.

Mike Lynch of educational toy firm LeapFrog, which conducted the...

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