How can you be 43 and not know who Hitler was and what he did?

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37. That is the accepted dialogue about those who did not go into crippling debt.

And, after spending 16 years in Land Surveying watching college kids mess everything up because they have zero experience, and working in a school for almost ten years and having to correct their idiotic mistakes while they earn many times what I did because they had a nice framed piece of paper that, I thought, meant that they were 'better educated' than I was.

Reality has a way of exposing the posers.

Also, after seeing the educational model that is commonly used, I do not wonder why some kids have no idea about the Holocaust. When the only concern is being able to memorize things and repeat them, it is no wonder that they have no idea what to do with such knowledge. Educators are quick to grade on by rote repetition, but few seem willing to discuss how to apply it to the students lives. Which is why there is no connection and why we get dangerous idiots like the two recently caught plotting to attack a synagogue. Without empathy, there is no understanding. With empathy, there is no corporate level greed. Wonder why they don't teach this stuff?