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It's been my experience that the best comedic minds are quite intelligent...
Wounded Bear
Nov 2020
#3
Not since having to teach to the test for funding. And Civic classes have been gone for a long time
judesedit
Nov 2020
#21
BINGO!!!! I've been saying this for years. The K-12 education system has failed us.
CaptainTruth
Nov 2020
#7
Should we include MSM could be showing people how to acquire critical thinking skills?
KS Toronado
Nov 2020
#9
Yes!! Have been saying this (although about traitor only the last five years) for the last six
niyad
Nov 2020
#8
Great points. I taught for 20 years in public schools and it's not as simple a people want it to be.
Dark n Stormy Knight
Nov 2020
#49
Exactly. Many, probably most, of his cult had access to a good education. However, you know the one
Dark n Stormy Knight
Nov 2020
#46
Yet I Know Highly Educated Americans Raised on Critical Thinking who Still Voted for Trump
Stallion
Nov 2020
#28
Yep. RW media is expertly-delivered propaganda, using all the tried and true techniques.
Dark n Stormy Knight
Nov 2020
#51
And how do we do that when just less than half of people think education is liberal propaganda??
Victor_c3
Nov 2020
#44
It's tempting to simplify this very complicated issue, but not productive.
Dark n Stormy Knight
Nov 2020
#52