[patj]

I do think that it is obvious. Parents should be the ones instilling this, not the newspaper. Immigrants that could not speak or write english made sure that their children got an education so they could better themselves. Most parents want to see their children do better than they did.

[monocle]

In your desperate search for obviousness, you fail to miss my point. Newspapers, television broadcasters and the like respond to the interests of their readers and viewers and thereby by reflect what is important to their audiences. Your use of the word "duh" somewhat mirrors this general apathy towards education. Flippancy on a serious subject is more telling than you would imagine.