Trivia Today - Monday, August 4, 2014

Greetings Infomaniacs,

It will be back to school time pretty soon, so I've got some fun facts about education to help get everyone in the mood...or at least try! I used to love this time of year when I was a kid, particularly picking out brand new school supplies. Something about color coordinating my folders and notebooks really made me happy! Guess it's the simple things in life sometimes...

Enjoy!
Melissa

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face...we must do that which we think we cannot."

HINT: (1884-1962), longest-serving First Lady of the United States.


RANDOM TIDBITS
The students at the first Montessori school were the underprivileged preschoolers of Rome's alums.

Schoolhouses were traditionally painted red because it was the cheapest color available.

The first chalkboard was used in a school in 1714.

Dartmouth was the last Ivy League college to go coed. It held out until 1972.

Of all the students in the world, Americans spend more school time in physical education: 12 percent. France and New Zealand are next, with 11 percent.

In 2004, for the first time in its history, Harvard admitted more women than men to its freshmen class.


*** Weekly Mind-Scrambler ***
When you bend me I'm kind
But I'm very hard to find
I'm easily sold
and rhyme with this when told

What am I?

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face...we must do that which we think we cannot."

ANSWER: Eleanor Roosevelt.

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