Actually Jeremy, they teach Turbo Pascal in high schools (at least when I was a student) and they also teach it in the university as one of the first introductory classes.

The problem is that all the advanced classes are not in Pascal/Delphi its in c++ , Java (yack!) or even something worse.
All the eyebrow people I talked with also started with the assumption it’s a programming language for nobs, with no poor. All of them said something in the area of “its like VB” (before VB.Net, which is.. more usable)