But I agree. I don't think our institutions do anything to instill continued learning or an instinct to do more in-depth investigations in people. They also set the bar so fucking low that I'm sure many people wouldn't even know what to look up because they lack the vocabulary to do so. Total lack of any real civics courses that don't simply have you perform rote memorization of the structures of the US federal government. That's all by design, though, and that's not some conspiracy either. Quoting Roger A. Freeman, former adviser to President Nixon and then adviser to Ronald Reagan as Governor of California:

We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow to go through [the higher education system.] If not we will have a large number of highly trained and unemployed people. That's what happened in Germany. I saw it happen.

An educated working class, is a dangerous working class.

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

A highly educated and unemployed proletariat leads to Nazi Germany?

That doesn't make any sense but the guy has to demonize education as Nazistic in order to make it sell among the then uneducated proletariat.