Cuimhe:
A more correct response would have been something like this:
I feel that the geographical retardation of the youth of our nation is indicative of two major failings in the national psyche:
Firstly, the self-image that big media fosters in the mind of American citizens from a young age leads of a stupendously biased view on the rest of the world. An americano-centric view that denigrates the worth of the people of other nations. This, combined with the mistaken belief that bigger is necessarily better, might lead an arrogant and ignorant youth to assume that the largest landmass is the USA. Of course, they would then be pointing at Asia or Africa.
Secondly, and this is true of education systems around the world, there is an attitude prevalent amongst a certain demographic that education stops when the child exits the school gates and that intellectualism is something to be feared and suppressed. A person growing up with this attitude will undoubtedly fail to attain a balanced world-view and a well rounded education.

If she'd said that, she'd rock.