We Teach Nothing, We Know Nothing—and That Could Cost the United States Everything | Trending

We Teach Nothing, We Know Nothing—and That Could Cost the United States Everything | Trending:
"...Teaching to the test is shallow.
Add in that history teaching is being watered down overall across our public education system, and we have a problem.
That problem was exposed, unintentionally, by an Obama administration official.
Far be it from me to agree with an Obama acolyte, but Ben Rhodes infamously said, "They literally know nothing" about the journalists he manipulated to sell the awful Iran nuclear deal. 
This, he said, made it easy to sell that deal.
He was a liberal, most journalists are default liberal, so they believed whatever he told them.
Lack of knowledge makes a whole lot of things easier for crafty people.
He wasn't wrong.
And he wasn't just talking about journalists. 
Most people literally know nothing about history. 
And along with losing foundations in history, public schools no longer teach rhetoric or critical thinking.
So people don't know what they don't know, and don't know what that means..."
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