Geography IQ

I found a neat article by searching Google News that was about a guy who wanted to devote his life to increasing American's geography IQ. Apparently Roger Anderson quit his job as fiber optics engineer to spend his time educating people in America about geography. He was dissapointed by the United States' poor showing at the international geography competition at that time. He has created a geography puzzle and is selling it throughout the country and he offers online geography competitions. Anderson really feels that people don't know enough about other places in the world. He says that people in other countries know all about the geography of the world because they have more time to travel and therefore spend a lot of time learning about the world in school.

Anderson definitely has the background and experience to devote his life this way. He said he visited 40 countries as a boy. I have been to 2, and one is the United States. I just think that it is really interesting that someone cares so much about geography that he would completely alter his life so that he could at least try and educate others. Geography is a great subject and hopefully more people will take his lead and either teach, or try and learn.