Is it a good thing? Should students learn lots of it?

 The reality of our K-12 system is that knowledge is in disrepute, and children don't learn much knowledge anymore.

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 Jesse Watters and Mark Dice conduct interviews in the street, asking people easy questions. A lot of people don't know the answers. It's easy to find videos by these two men on YouTube. (It's also instructive to watch the people answering. They always guess. Who fought in the Civil War? The French??? Apparently that's something our  students are  taught to do now – they guess to read; and they guess to take every test. Point is, they don't know that they do not know. But educated people, such as you and I, we know we know something or we don't know something. The remarkable thing about our really ignorant citizens is  that for them all answers have about the same probability of being right, so why not try one?) Who did we fight in World War II? The Chinese? Russians? The French? The South? Really, it's almost that bad.

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 Anyway, here is a good discussion on American Thinker about how knowledge has been devastated in our public schools. Half of it has been eliminated in a direct way, using such excuses as our kids don't need to know this anymore. The other half is taught in a garbled and confused way so that not much of it sticks.

 "Killing Knowledge in K-12" explains how the USA is being deliberately dumbed down.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/03/killing_knowledge_i...