You’re exactly right about the casual attitude that develops into—or comes from—”Being rich is my birthright as an American; I don’t need to know anything or produce anything.” But the problems start before college.
How often do you see conservatives put their money into free materials for the classrooms? Walk the halls of a public school in America, and you’ll see nature posters by Greenpeace, etc. Even when they don’t have an overt political message, they prime the students for certain things that are promoted in the teacher materials.
Rather than just publishing more papers, I’d like to see conservative organizations getting out to the schools with a package of non-partisan info on the Constitution. Or economics. Or balanced science. Or...
Or grammar! >blush< (I'd actually meant to reword that sentence.)