In talking to students, I find they know nothing of our founding fathers other than they owned slaves. They never heard of Bastiat, they cannot identify our second president, they cannot explain the reason for the Declaration of Independence.
This is why Obama is so popular; because of their lack of education his people do not understand the economic and social dangers that he poses. They see profit from legal plunder and care not for its consequences.
Back to your point, any education should carry these materials; otherwise it’s not an education, it is an indoctrination.
And sadly this is NO accident! They are being dumbed down by design in order to accommodate the socialist agenda currently in vogue!
H.L. Mencken