While they could locate the Desert of Sahara or the capital of China on an artificial globe, I found out that the girls could not locate the proper places for the knives and forks on an actual dinner-table, or the places on which the bread and meat should be set.
Washington highlights the stark contrast between students' academic knowledge of geography and their lack of practical domestic skills.
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