From the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, this depressing statistic: 34% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 have a favorable opinion of communism:
To say you like communism, you have to be a moron. And you have to know absolutely nothing about history. And you must be getting your information from ill-intentioned, malicious sources. What sources might those be? The public schools. What other explanation is there for young people developing a fondness for communism?
I think we have reached the point where it is a serious question whether, on balance, our public schools do more harm than good. Sure, our kids need to learn how to read and write, multiply and divide. But the schools do a horrible job of teaching them those things. Their focus is on propaganda, not education. With no public schools, probably the same number of kids would learn basic skills from their parents or in private schools, for which demand would rise. But most students would be spared the propaganda component of contemporary public “education.”
Here is another data point: who elected Zohran Mamdani Mayor of New York? The college educated. From the same source:
Exit polls show that Mandani won 78% of voters under age 30 and 57% of college graduates, but just 26% of the white non-college vote.
There is growing evidence that going to college tends to make people dumber, not smarter. We need a wholesale re-evaluation and overhaul of everything we are doing to educate our children. In the meantime, you should homeschool your kids if you can, and don’t pay for them to go to college unless they need a specific course of study, like engineering or pre-med.
