I know your Jimmy has a degree, a new Mac and iPhone. But I'm sorry Mr. and Mrs. Smith, he's as dumb as a stump. It's cultural, nothing to do with lead paint. He has never held a thought in his head.

When students are bragging about having degrees where they never had to read a book you have a problem.

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If data and information were water, we would live deep in the oceans. Yet with all this information, this history, this vast foundation of post-enlightenment teaching, how are we so stupid?

The term “stu…