canpakes wrote:Thanks, Ohio, for helping to turn schools into another tool for guaranteeing ignorance and the dumbing-down of children, for the sake of being too fearful of offending the delicate egos of their religious parents.
Antipathy toward education has been a GOP thing for a while now. It makes sense. The more educated people are, the less inclined toward the GOP people will be.
As I understand it, that seems to be pretty much borne out by current demographic surveys.
No precept or claim is more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
― Harlan Ellison