How Anti-Intellectualism Is Destroying America

How Anti-Intellectualism Is Destroying America : “In my talks to people, I often mention a statistic from the National Constitution Center that almost half of Americans can’t name even one of the rights guaranteed by the First Amendment. A student stood up at a university in California and said, “That doesn’t matter because you can just look it up on the Internet.� But if you don’t know what the First Amendment is in the first place, you don’t know what question to ask the Web. Garbage in, garbage out. The Web’s only as good as our ability to ask questions of it. The ability to access information means nothing if you don’t have an educated framework of knowledge to fit it into�