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    The document discusses issues with the public education system. It argues that students are taught what to think rather than how to think critically. Most students only receive boring lectures and are not inspired to explore subjects in depth. As a result, many citizens do not have a strong understanding of important documents like the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights that give them their freedoms. The document encourages taking more responsibility for one's own education by asking questions and searching for answers on important topics rather than relying solely on what is taught in school.

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    The document discusses issues with the public education system. It argues that students are taught what to think rather than how to think critically. Most students only receive boring lectures and are not inspired to explore subjects in depth. As a result, many citizens do not have a strong understanding of important documents like the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights that give them their freedoms. The document encourages taking more responsibility for one's own education by asking questions and searching for answers on important topics rather than relying solely on what is taught in school.

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    The document discusses issues with the public education system. It argues that students are taught what to think rather than how to think critically. Most students only receive boring lectures and are not inspired to explore subjects in depth. As a result, many citizens do not have a strong understanding of important documents like the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights that give them their freedoms. The document encourages taking more responsibility for one's own education by asking questions and searching for answers on important topics rather than relying solely on what is taught in school.

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    Education

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    The document discusses issues with the public education system. It argues that students are taught what to think rather than how to think critically. Most students only receive boring lectures and are not inspired to explore subjects in depth. As a result, many citizens do not have a strong understanding of important documents like the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights that give them their freedoms. The document encourages taking more responsibility for one's own education by asking questions and searching for answers on important topics rather than relying solely on what is taught in school.

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    Education

    Every day we learn something, though most of the time it is something that has no importance,
    something like Britney Spears doesn’t wear panties. Seriously, how important is it to know if Britney
    wears panties or not, when in our daily lives we are enslaved by our jobs and our government? It is
    really quite sad actually, we have these amazing brains, but yet we only use 10% of our brain. Why is
    that? Well let’s start out with our education, in particular, the public education system.

    You all remember going to school as a kid, so let me ask you this…Do you remember being excited and
    really thinking, asking questions and then discovering the answers about what you were learning when
    you went to school? There was one teacher throughout my education that made learning exciting for
    me; she was my second grade teacher. This is what public education offers: a rare possibility of having
    a good teacher that will provoke your interest in what you are learning, but most of the time you get a
    boring lecture of this is what happened or how this works, and no exploration into the subject. So
    basically we are taught what to think, not how to think. It’s like the saying “You give a man a fish and
    you feed him for a day…You teach a man how to fish you feed him for a lifetime. We are not taught how
    to think and learn critically unless we are lucky enough to have had at least one good teacher during the
    beginning of our education; we are simply fed bits of data and told to process it like a computer. Every
    student taught in the public school system is just an organic computer trained for labor, “No child left
    behind.”.

    Because public schools are government funded and are a product of the government, I would like to ask
    how many of you who are reading this, actually know what is written in the constitution and the bill of
    rights and what it all means? We all know that the constitution and bill of rights give us our freedoms in
    the U.S. because that’s what we were taught, but did your teacher ever explore every amendment and
    article that makes up those documents when they were teaching you about it? Most likely not because
    that is usually something you explore in depth in law school. These documents give U.S. citizens’ their
    freedoms, but yet most U.S. citizens don’t learn much more then what they were taught in school about
    them. Don’t you think it would be important to learn everything you could about the documents that
    give you your freedom? For those of you who don’t completely understand everything written in these
    documents, I encourage you to please go and learn everything you can about the constitution and bill of
    rights starting by clicking here, because without the citizens to back those documents, our congressmen
    view them as just pieces of parchment.

    Since we do learn something new every day wouldn’t it be safe to say that gaining intelligence is one of
    the many reasons why we live, and if so why are we not taking the opportunity to educate ourselves
    with important things that will help us continue our existence and help us defend ourselves? Instead we
    rely on a government that with every ounce of security they provide is another freedom lost because
    people don’t understand that when they rely on someone to protect them they give that person the
    right to control them. Our priorities in what we are learning every day needs to change or we will see
    ourselves devolving instead of evolving. Education is free when you go searching for it, and what I mean
    by that is ask questions, search for the answers, and always look for supporting evidence in what you are
    researching before you come to your final conclusion. Albert Einstein was not a college graduate, he did
    not have a school to tell him what to think, his curiosity is what made him a genius, and it is curiosity
    that made Thomas Edison a great inventor as he did not receive much formal education as well.

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