Doug Casey on public schools

Schools do not teach critical thinking—if indeed they ever did—at least since Plato’s Academy and Aristotle’s Lyceum.  Critical thinking is the habit of questioning all assertions and examining everything that we think we know in the light of knowledge, logic, the scientific method, and your own research.  That doesn’t exist anymore in schools.  In fact, the government and the establishment don’t want schools to turn out critical thinkers and free thinkers.  To the contrary, they want obedient, indoctrinated serfs who will do as they’re told and act as cogs in the wheel.

~ Doug Casey, "Doug Casey Reveals 3 Ways You Can Opt-Out of the Rising Insanity," Doug Casey's International Man, October 4, 2021