And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, November 1, 2014
And they vote!
Look, I'm sure the folk that made this video edited out the kids that knew the answers, but still, those questions were basic. Very basic. Every single college kid - in fact, every kid in America - should have the answers at the tip of their tongue.
A pathetic performance, and every one of those truly uneducated children should be ashamed.
I remember when I first saw something like this on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He called it Jay Walking and I thought it was all a put on by actors acting stupid. But, it was real people who didn't know the basics I was taught in grad school. But, they simply don't teach American history and civics in school anymore and it's scandalous. If we don't know who we are and how we got here, there is no promising future for all of us.
ReplyDeleteExactly. And I suspect that this result is intentional on the part of the educational establishment. A dumb electorate is easy to manipulate.
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