Anti-Intellectualism is killing America

[SheilaT]

9. While it's worse now than ever,

this country has long had a very strong anti-intellectual bent. Adlai Stevenson was mocked for being an "egghead".

There was even a political movement in the 1850's known as the Know Nothings, although they were more anti-Catholic than anything else.

And it's very common for people to complain that schools don't need computers, because what was good enough for them should be good enough for their children, showing a total lack of understanding that things change, and we need to educate children for the world their growing up into, not their father or grandfather's world.