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Why are Americans so stunningly ignorant?
RightSideNews.com ^ | 11 Nov., 2014 | Bruce Deitrick Price

Posted on 12/05/2014 11:59:46 AM PST by BruceDeitrickPrice

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1 posted on 12/05/2014 11:59:46 AM PST by BruceDeitrickPrice
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice

Some are ignorant and some have wisdom.

Always been that way, always will.


2 posted on 12/05/2014 12:01:31 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice

Answer:

Actual capability and accomplishment is punished.

Incompetence and failure are rewarded.

Why try?


3 posted on 12/05/2014 12:02:05 PM PST by Uncle Miltie ('The HERO of the (0bamacare) story is Mitt Romney' - "Stupid" Jonathan Gruber)
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Radical Left teachers unions, Marxist college professors, national media an appendage of the Democrat party, depraved Hollyweird celubutard culture....need I gone on?


5 posted on 12/05/2014 12:04:00 PM PST by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice

Well,.....what’s the answer?


6 posted on 12/05/2014 12:04:56 PM PST by phugg
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A people inculcated in our history cannot be made servants of the state. Repeated early education in the Bill of Rights alone would probably be enough.


7 posted on 12/05/2014 12:05:20 PM PST by Jacquerie (Article V. If not now, when?)
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I am stunned, daily, at the lack if intellectual depth and understanding of American history by many people.

And I’m a High Skrewel drop out..

Okay, not really.

I mean, I left High Skrewel at 15 and went to college but, that was my Mom’s idea...


8 posted on 12/05/2014 12:05:53 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice

Perhaps we need to start firing incompetent teachers, based on their students’ achievement or lack thereof.


9 posted on 12/05/2014 12:08:23 PM PST by Twotone (Truth is hate to those who hate truth.)
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Four-plus decades of a public education system that was designed to do precisely that.


10 posted on 12/05/2014 12:08:28 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Jacquerie
If you want stunning, ask a bunch of freepers if there was an immigration EO.

/johnny

11 posted on 12/05/2014 12:08:40 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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Several colleagues I were having lunch at a Peruvian restaurant, when one of the group, a young engineer from a major private University asked:

Where is Peruvia?

Unbelievable.

12 posted on 12/05/2014 12:08:55 PM PST by Michael.SF. (It takes a gun to feed a village.)
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LOL!


13 posted on 12/05/2014 12:09:22 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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Darwin..


14 posted on 12/05/2014 12:09:33 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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Well,.....what’s the answer?

kill your television!!!

15 posted on 12/05/2014 12:09:57 PM PST by bankwalker (If you ain't scared, then you ain't payin' attention!)
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people who think white, Christian, males are historically responsible for the worlds oppression, have set up an educational system where they give Ritalin to the white boys and dumb down everyone.
and it has worked.


16 posted on 12/05/2014 12:10:37 PM PST by willywill
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If Educrats want to know why Americans are so stunningly stupid, they can look at one of these for the answer....


17 posted on 12/05/2014 12:11:00 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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In 1990 I was a college student at a well regarded New England university. I came back to my dorm room after my microbiology final to find my roommate feverishly studying for a US history exam. She was frantically looking through her notes for some fact. She looked up at me and asked if I could help. I reminded her that I was a science major and history was not my forte but I could have a stab at it.

Her question.... what side did Lee fight for?

Blame parents and schools ( not just public ones)


18 posted on 12/05/2014 12:11:48 PM PST by longfellowsmuse (last of the living nomads)
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To: bankwalker
kill your television!!!

Amen! Preach it, brother!

/johnny

19 posted on 12/05/2014 12:11:56 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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I’ll go ahead and state the obvious. Knowing that the Revolutionary War preceded the Civil War is not just the retention of meaningless facts. It’s the retention of a conceptual view of history that relates one event leading to another. It’s not possible for one person to know all facts of history, but knowing the difference between two of the very few most important events in your country’s history is nice. Especially if you plan to be a historian.


20 posted on 12/05/2014 12:12:11 PM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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