Published on Aug 1, 2013
Students at Denver's Metropolitan
State University were unable to answer questions taken from a basic
knowledge test administered to 8th graders in 1912, which was reprinted
by Smithsonian Magazine earlier this month.
A democratic republic works best when the populace is literate and
understands how its government works. This allows the citizens to
participate effectively in their representative government. Otherwise,
said government is no longer representative, but becomes tyrannical.
Uninformed idiocracy rules in the current USA with no end in sight.
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