You have to wonder what kind of education these people have...
They see no value in citizens, much less government officials, having a knowledge of history? Of foreign languages? Of economics, for heaven's sake?
How do they govern? By the Bible, Speaker Johnson says. You can't even understand the Bible without some knowledge of religion and history, which they want to cut out. (Or are they cutting out religion?) I guess if you want to learn anything that doesn't have a direct "practical" benefit, you have to go to a private college.
But the motivation is obvious: people who get a "liberal" education are likely to have empathy, to know about traditions like civilian control of the military (the military academies teach that--do these people want it cut out?), to question authority and the innate virtue of the rich...in other words to believe in a society very different from what these people want. You constantly hear that the colleges must be indoctrinating students because kids go off to college as obedient children and come home doubting what they've been told all their lives. No, the colleges are not indoctrinating students, they are teaching children to question (including their own beliefs), to think critically, to learn and understand things that they have not been exposed to previously. They are not being taught what to think; they are being taught to think. And that bothers a lot of adults.
You have to wonder what kind of education these people have...
They see no value in citizens, much less government officials, having a knowledge of history? Of foreign languages? Of economics, for heaven's sake?
How do they govern? By the Bible, Speaker Johnson says. You can't even understand the Bible without some knowledge of religion and history, which they want to cut out. (Or are they cutting out religion?) I guess if you want to learn anything that doesn't have a direct "practical" benefit, you have to go to a private college.
But the motivation is obvious: people who get a "liberal" education are likely to have empathy, to know about traditions like civilian control of the military (the military academies teach that--do these people want it cut out?), to question authority and the innate virtue of the rich...in other words to believe in a society very different from what these people want. You constantly hear that the colleges must be indoctrinating students because kids go off to college as obedient children and come home doubting what they've been told all their lives. No, the colleges are not indoctrinating students, they are teaching children to question (including their own beliefs), to think critically, to learn and understand things that they have not been exposed to previously. They are not being taught what to think; they are being taught to think. And that bothers a lot of adults.