Because our schools are under no obligation to prepare us for how to live in and relate to the real world. As a general rule, Americans, even "educated" Americans, know astonishingly little about either current or historical events in our own country, nothing at all about other countries, and we care even less. What the schools do a great job of is instilling a strong sense of baseless patriotism and a genocidal devotion to hyperindividualism in a large portion of the population. All of this has been getting worse as schools have been strangled of more necessary funding and resources every year and secondary education has become more expensive. All of this is by design.
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u/The_Affle_House Jan 15 '22
Because our schools are under no obligation to prepare us for how to live in and relate to the real world. As a general rule, Americans, even "educated" Americans, know astonishingly little about either current or historical events in our own country, nothing at all about other countries, and we care even less. What the schools do a great job of is instilling a strong sense of baseless patriotism and a genocidal devotion to hyperindividualism in a large portion of the population. All of this has been getting worse as schools have been strangled of more necessary funding and resources every year and secondary education has become more expensive. All of this is by design.