Critical Thinking and Public Ignorance Are at War

We’ve all seen the argument that favors replacing some of our kids’ high school classes with those covering some of the practical life skills discussed in the meme here.  Some use sarcastic humor to make this point, e.g., “I’m glad I learned about parallelograms instead of how to do taxes. It’s really come in handy this parallelogram season.”

As we know, however, American schooling is already horrifically deficient in math and science, and making that worse would make the next generation that much less capable of competing on the global stage.

A cynic might say that we actually want our kids as uneducated as possible, because the college experience enables young people to think critically, an ability that is essentially poison to a government that is completely reliant on public ignorance.  Very few college educated people believe that the 2020 election was stolen, that climate change and the pandemic are hoaxes, or that Trump was an honest hardworking servant of the American people.

If you’re a Republican, that should scare the hell out of you.