Our so-called federal and state leaders along with the private interests that designed our educational programs perhaps do not even realize that what they are doing with our children is creating another generation of status quo ignorance about what the most vital issues are. Perhaps out of fear for their aggregations of family wealth or their cash-bought seat in government or their soul-forfeited position in the corporate hierarchy, they don't want our children to react swiftly and rationally to the fundamental environmental crises --- rather it would appear they want our children single-mindedly to focus on productivity and making the US a profitable nation again. They do this through logical fallacy. And this is why I insist that debate and controversial topics be at the forefront of public education and all policy for that matter. Otherwise we can look forward to decades of tabulating test data till oblivion finally makes it clear as pure water to us we didn't know what real prosperity was!
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