"...America has produced a substantial number of young people who don’t know the fundamental elements of their country or the important aspects of its operation, and who are, therefore, unprepared to discharge the duties and obligations of citizenship.
Ours is a country whose success and ability to continue being successful depend upon its citizens understanding its foundational principles.We must know how government is supposed to work, being able to discern when it has strayed from its proper course, and then work to restore things so that the republic can and will survive and thrive.
John Adams put it quite succinctly: “Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.”
And his cousin Sam Adams likewise warned, “No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffusd and Virtue is preservd. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauchd in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.”
...He quoted a News Forum for Lawyers article about a study by American Institutes for Research revealing that more than “75 percent of two-year college students and 50 percent of four-year college students were incapable of completing everyday tasks.”
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