Reply #113: According to Albert Jay Nock...

[CubicleGuy]

... in his book "The Theory of Education in the United States" (written back in 1932, a compilation of lectures he gave in 1931), we stopped educating people here long ago. Google the title, and you should be able to come up with an online copy of it in short order.

What we do do is to train people to enter a vocation. The purpose of education, however, is to teach people how to think. We don't do that any longer, because it is the rare individual who is ever exposed to the great thinkers of the past.

The economic mess that we are currently in is all the proof we need that we, as a society, are by and large uneducated. An educated people would not have come in this direction, because they would have seen early on that the course they were taking was madness.