What Children Learn at School Differs Greatly According to Region

In a recent post I mentioned that Denmark puts its schoolchildren through a course on empathy, where they’re taught that other people should be treated with kindness and decency.  At left we have another element of what kids in this region of the world learn at school: how to distinguish misinformation from truth.

The funny part of all this is that the Scandinavian countries need this the least.  Their entire culture is built around an ethos of community and fairness.

My request: bring some of this over here to the United States, where it actually is needed.  Desperately.