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It doesn't necessarily follow that education is getting worse, though. Legolas Send a noteboard - 22/09/2015 06:22:31 PM

View original postIf you look at the most popular candidates in each party's primary, you see that they are ignoring logic to make populist arguments that appeal to peoples' emotions. When more conventional candidates try to point out logical flaws, they are berated as being defeatist insiders or worse, as "intellectuals". People are starting to not know how much they don't know, which is another step down the road to Idiocracy.

If anything, it's arguably a sign that education has improved, to the point where far more people feel qualified to proclaim opinions, even on subjects that they're completely clueless on.

One of the most depressing statistics is the 43% of Republicans who believe Obama is a Muslim - what that really means is that nearly half of the population (I rather suspect Democrats would be as bad on other topics) feels that their opinion trumps those pesky little things called facts.

View original postI am supplementing my children's education at home with real, substantive education. We read books on science and history, I get out the Atlas to show maps and teach geography and my 6-year-old is learning Latin. I explained the accusative case and she never made a mistake once. We added the genitive case a few days later and are moving slowly but with marked progress.

Latin at 6? Impressive. Is she already bilingual in English and Russian?

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It doesn't necessarily follow that education is getting worse, though. - 22/09/2015 06:22:31 PM 617 Views
But it has. College is now teaching what high school should have. - 22/09/2015 09:00:20 PM 694 Views
I'll take your word for that, but... - 22/09/2015 11:02:28 PM 552 Views
Re: It doesn't necessarily follow that education is getting worse, though. - 23/09/2015 02:03:03 AM 505 Views
To some extent - not entirely - it's just that the ideas of general knowledge were different. - 23/09/2015 06:25:36 PM 580 Views
You keep making this error in your logic. - 23/09/2015 07:44:00 PM 488 Views
Johnny can't read is hardly new - 28/09/2015 05:25:29 PM 519 Views
It's more symptomatic, IMO - 26/09/2015 05:49:12 PM 511 Views
We agree on most things, then. Good. - 26/09/2015 11:09:40 PM 457 Views
German? - 27/09/2015 03:21:51 PM 514 Views
Do you have the full statistics? That'd be interesting. - 27/09/2015 04:59:40 PM 477 Views
Can you list those language choices? - 28/09/2015 07:21:37 AM 541 Views
Wait, who is that a question to? - 28/09/2015 06:38:20 PM 483 Views
You. - 28/09/2015 08:05:54 PM 638 Views
Oh. I couldn't tell you exactly. - 28/09/2015 08:39:53 PM 523 Views
My local High School only offers Spanish and French - 28/09/2015 05:34:27 PM 482 Views
Indeed. - 27/09/2015 11:41:07 PM 448 Views
My experience is similar. - 02/10/2015 09:14:58 PM 455 Views
That 43% is another BS survey result - 28/09/2015 04:36:51 PM 495 Views

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