[papertyger]

Modern (meaning left-oriented!) education undermines the concept of "knowns (ergo what you know!)" and refuses to teach you the skills to find out what you don't.

Exactly.

These leftist SOBs would like nothing better than to have opponents who lack the skills to PROVE them wrong.

Without the skills to achieve mathematical "certainty" for ones conclusions, it all becomes "just your opinion."

[Talisker]

Without the skills to achieve mathematical "certainty" for ones conclusions, it all becomes "just your opinion."

Very good point - without algebra, a person doesn't even have the experience that it's possible, not just in math, but in the logic behind it.

Try to imagine not being able to imagine that logical derivation of truth is possible.

Then look around at liberals with new eyes.