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I don't think this is right at all. Higher education is correlated to treating politics as a hobby (treating politics as sports, essentially) which is exactly w

• goatherders 6y ago
  Who said anything about higher education? I'm talking about basic civics, basic economics, and basic science. You don't have to look very far to find people beset by ignorance.
• happytoexplain 6y ago
  A. I agree that treating politics as sports is ruining everything, but I don't agree that "going to college" is a reasonable thing to point to as the source of the problem. B. The pros and cons of "higher education" is a drop in the bucket of reasons US education is "bad". All the years prior to university are much more important. Having gone through the system in "good" schools, I couldn't agree with the parent post more. However, none of it can begin until the generic stigma of "more education = bad" is destroyed (which probably first means destroying the one real thing that is fueling that image, which is the price of college and subsequent class warfare).
  • goatherders 6y ago
    Thank you. I don't understand why my original comment is receiving a number of downvotes; the American public is wildly under-eductated considering the resources available.