1. How many minutes are in a kilometer?
2. Who was the first person to land on the Sun?
3. What country is Venice, Italy in?
In many cases common sense an innate intelligence seem to have an inverse relationship .
Many people become educated beyond their common sense and lose their grasp of reality.
Don’t worry. Mother Nature, hunger, pain and suffering are pretty good teachers.
I don’t believe some of these interviews. While it’s true many American teens are utterly ignorant of geography, they can’t possibly be this stupid? Can they?
My sixth grade teacher would include a bonus question on her tests. One was, “What color was George Washington’s white horse.” It was amazing home many kids missed that.
While I accept the fact that Americans aren’t as educated as they used to be, the video seems a little over the top to me. All the people being asked those questions were obviously acting and in on the ruse.
Now we have PragerU and Wild World of History but are they too late?
Years ago the Education establishment started pushing Critical Thinking Skills.
What is “Critical Thinking”? It basically means blind acceptance of Marxism. You do what you’re told. You don’t think for yourself. It’s the opposite of the name.
When Bloomberg ran for the presidency, he spent $300 million. A news commentator noted that he had spent $1 million per person in the country. No. Wrong. To say such a thing is to show evidence that your brain is switched off. You aren’t even thinking about what comes out of your mouth.
We have convinced several generations not to think at all.
And the worst part is, the people who don’t know anything, and don’t know how to think, are convinced that they are brilliant and should make all your decisions for you.
Folks who aren’t familiar with them should take a look at McGuffey Readers sometime.
If that doesn’t drive those who don’t to home/private/parochial school, nothing will.
However, it didn't keep them from following some very bad people....and I'm not just talking Hitler. Remember, East and West Germany had some pieces of work running their countries as well and Angela Merckel isn't particularily appealing.
What's happened is that the German people turned away from God centuries ago. At one time, the Germans were sending missionaries into the world. Now, it's a mission field.
The same thing is happening in America.
Used to be taught to think with logic, reason and creativity. Now it’s swallow the Wokeness propaganda topics with emotional conformity or risk being ostracized if an independent thinker.
The USA spends multiple billions on public education with pitifully poor results. Expensive garbage is not improved by paying even more for it.
What we see is lack of Wisdom, and wisdom comes from The Lord.
....... and level of stupidity as well.
I got my last formal education in the 50s & think it was a pretty good education, but then I saw some of the schooling that was required several years prior to that. What a change in those years! Now, everything seems really dumbed-down as far as formal education.
Watching that video makes me very glad I’m old. If I was 40 and saw that I’d be very, very depressed.
They also required severe limits on who was allowed to vote.
As my dear Mother used to say, some people are so smart, they’re stupid.
For the first time in History, we have every bit of Human Knowledge at our fingertips, yet the level of ignorance, the lack of common sense and epidemic levels of sheer stupidity throughout the Population is simply astounding.
Remember, half the Population of the United States thinks Joementia Xiden received the most Votes for POTUS ever.
Either that is true which really proves my point, or it is false which means those same people can be convinced of anything, even if they have access to mounds of information that proves otherwise.
A Republic if you can keep it. Well, we obviously couldn’t.