Why Schools Kill Critical Thinking

Could you pass an 8th grade test from 100 years ago? The Federalist Papers were written for everyday folks—yet many college grads today struggle to understand them. Why the gap? This is an excerpt from The Silent INVASION of YOUR Town. View Ben’s full interview on the Dangerous Info podcast here: https://treeoflibertysociety.com/the-silent-invasion-of-your-town.

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Jesse Jaymz

You'll never learn these things in school. They just roll right on through it. You know, that's the scariest thing. I'm sure anybody out there has looked at, let's say, an eighth grade exam in, I don't know, middle school. Well, they didn't have middle school back then, but eighth grade. Eighth grade exam from 100 years ago. How many of you would pass that? How many of us would pass that? I'm telling you, weren't they way, way more intelligent with things like liberty, with things like principles and things like that? I'm not sure if we could attempt to even get through that eighth grade test back then. It's crazy.

Ben McClintock

Well, you go back to the 1780s and 90s, and we have the Federalist Papers. This was written for the common farmer, which the media wants to tell us now is dumb as rocks. But I guarantee you get the average 30-year-old that is a college graduate goes and reads this. They're not going to know what half the words mean.