>Why would that be a subject in a Bolivian scholl? I mean, do you also learn all the counties of England (I don't know them either), all the Provinces of Canada, the departments of France, the cantons of CH ...?
No, I studied in Bolivia in an American school; let's say, a school that catered mainly to foreigners. That must have been - let's see - about 30 years ago.
Later, I studies by correspondence, with a school called American School (now, its name seems to be American School of Correspondence). But there, knowing all the U.S. states was not a requirement.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
