Rick Santorum uncovers another liberal conspiracy.

[The Mikado]

Eh.  Everyone feels their big educational topic isn't taught enough.  You can't go anywhere without hearing "American children don't know science!" "American children can't do algebra anymore!" "American children think that Huckleberry Finn is a type of pie!" "American children don't know what year the War of 1812 started!" etc.  There's a lot of exaggeration and panic, and, frankly, I don't necessarily think that people not knowing things they don't actively want to learn is the worst thing in the world.

To me, a far bigger problem than the uninformed are the ill-informed that think they're well-informed.  Socrates himself argued that it's far better to know nothing than to "know" something that isn't true.

[The Mikado]

The critical irony shortage in Angus' posts in this thread makes them almost painful to read.  I require a certain level of irony and sarcasm in my reading material, and earnest praise of wholesome, "traditional" education (as if schoolboys in the 19th century or prior weren't taught that Socrates liked to screw young boys) has the same effect on me that water did on the Wicked Witch of the West.