To get an idea of how wonderful the public education system is here in the United States, go back and read some of the Federalist Papers. Somehow the founding fathers were able to articulate whole thoughts through complex and succinct language. Yet they were able to express themselves intellectually without the benefit of the Department of Education. Look how far we have come ... or should I say, look how far we have fallen. What we have now should really be called the Department of Re-education. We have produced a population of younger individuals that are prone to propaganda and the dispensation of hearsay as news. Despite the abundance of instantly available information, we have a population that is less informed than their counterparts of two hundred years ago.
Many students in Wisconsin, upon being interviewed about their participation in the protests in Madison, do not even know what they protesting. It is amazing to me that we have become a giant herd of sheep.
