How do we achieve this?
They say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, and there is certainly truth to this. Indeed, all around us we observe people who seem to have a grasp of only one "fact", which unfortunately is an incorrect one. The issue is that knowledge has its basis in facts. While nowadays the public school establishment is struggling mightily to teach understanding and theory to students without burdening them with extraneous facts, they have missed an important fact: facts matter!
You can neither understand a theory nor critically analyze it if you do not understand any of the facts that theory is based on. Therefore, what students nowadays often learn is that facts are unimportant, and all theories are equally probable, whether they are based in fact or not. What they end up understanding is that knowledge is whatever they want it to be. In other words:
- Facts don't matter.
- My idea is as good as your fact.
- All theories are equally probable.
- Nobody really knows anything.
- Therefore, I can pick whatever "theory" I want to believe in.
- And since facts don't matter, I can make them up to support my ideas.
Where have I heard this logic before? Well, it seems like just about everywhere nowadays.
Well, that's not what we are teaching here. It goes without saying that the more you know, the more easily you can manipulate people who know little or nothing. So by the time they leave this school, our young women (and a small percentage of the most talented, intelligent, trainable, and subservient males) will have a deep understanding of society, culture, infrastructure, human nature, science, mathematics, language, and many other subjects. It will serve them well as they move towards their bright and successful future.
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