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by dragontamer 2880 days ago
> The way to fight ignorance is with education.

And ignorance fights back with education. Removing Thomas Jefferson from textbooks for example. Or replacing evolution with creationism / intelligent design theory.

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/education/13texas.html

People rewrite education to suit their political slants. You ain't gonna win in education until you win at politics.

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> You ain't gonna win in education until you win at politics.

Unless politics doesn't control education... which is a direction we're fortunately slowly moving towards.