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RE: This Piece of Bacon may end Western Civilization
Ignorance today is the norm, unfortunately. I had one person comment on another post where I said I was all for publicly funded education through High School, but anything beyond should be up to each person, and they said that we should fund everyone's "dream", because lack of intelligence is why we're in this boat right now. He can't seem to grasp that education and intelligence are two different things.
You're more generous with public indoctr... errr, education than I am. IMO, any public efforts should be completely funded locally by those affected. It works in much of the world, while in other areas it's more dependent upon charity.
Much of the problem with intelligence is due to our current education systems. They teach facts (or what they want you to know, whether true or not) so you can pass tests and they can keep looking good in order to get their funding. Critical thinking has been lost, except where a few standouts break from the herd or parents embrace teaching it themselves, either through homeschooling or by spending a ton of time walking their kids through the state system. We opted for the former, and never looked back. It paid off nicely, IMO.