1/4 Americans unaware Earth circles the Sun. Here's why:

(Source: Yahoo News, AFP)
Americans are enthusiastic about the promise of science but lack basic knowledge of it, with one in four unaware that the Earth revolves around the Sun, said a poll out Friday.

The survey included more than 2,200 people in the United States and was conducted by the National Science Foundation. Nine questions about physical and biological science were on the quiz, and the average score -- 6.5 correct -- was barely a passing grade.

Just 74 percent of respondents knew that the Earth revolved around the Sun, according to the results released at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Chicago.
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It's not an accident that Americas education system is in serious decline, adept at nothing more than breeding fools who can either carry a gun or flip a whopper. The dumbing down of America is a sinister plot based on control. Your first mistake is assuming the Education system serves to actually educate. It doesn't. It serves to create good members of the "state".

The US experimented with "Mass Education" after Sputnik but the kids who profited from one of the most expensive education systems on the planet (in that time), took up against Jim Crow and Vietnam.

Our Rulers aren't the most clever bunch, even they can learn. And learn they did, that a education leads to dissent. So who is the Father of this decline? None other than John Dewey. Dewey not only subverted the education system as a whole, he even managed to subvert the LANGUAGE of education with purposefully vague sentiments and philosophies.

From Henry Makow:

John Dewey and his friend, the influential Jewish Marxist propagandist, Sidney Hook, saw the American school system as the thin end of the wedge in their deceitful game to slowly build a secular society with no moral absolutes.

Using Rockefeller money to establish the Teachers College in New York (1922), their goal was to create a new generation not quite as bright as their parents; and with every succeeding generation, a copy, the actual content of which -- facts, data, objective truth -- faded and became less clear and comprehensible.

Replacing mathematics, geography, history and science with cooking, sewing, household management and manual training skills necessary to run machinery. And make no mistake: that dumbing down has been both damnable and deliberate.

John Dewey: 'The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness. There is not obvious social motive for the acquirement of mere learning, there is no clear social gain in success thereat.'

Educators were now indoctrinated to accept the viewpoint, based on nothing more than Dewey's belief, that "what" they taught was irrelevant; how and why they taught were the main considerations. Eventually Communist "agents of influence" took over where Dewey and company left off.

Nothing in American Education works well.  None of it is intended to work well.

Frankly, you shouldn't expect the American Education system to EVER rise again above what it is now. The entire system would have to be violently disassembled, every administrator and most of the educators with in it would have to be cut out like a cancer.

The architects of such a system must be acknowledged for who and what they are (American subversives) and dealt with accordingly.

If we don't act soon, these subversives will complete their work in destroying the foundations of a modern functioning society, and then education will be the last thing on anyone's mind...


Henry Mencken, The American Mercury, April 1924
"The aim of public education is not to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence. . . . Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim . . . is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States. . . . "