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It’s only a problem that large numbers are easily duped no matter how much education we give them when it’s also coupled with no-questions-asked universal suffr
by BeFlatXIII 4y ago
It’s only a problem that large numbers are easily duped no matter how much education we give them when it’s also coupled with no-questions-asked universal suffrage.
- kashunstva 4y agoIt depends in part on the quality of what is passed off as education. After twelve years of US public education in the 1970’s and 80’s, not once did critical thinking tools, types and sources of bias, and default-mode skepticism come up. I’d rather work on improving that, rather than making it even harder for citizens to vote.
- BeFlatXIII 4y agoAnd the #1 way to improve educational outcomes is to figure out how to attract better candidates to be elementary teachers, NOT curriculum micromanagement (whether from elected school boards or directly from parents)