Education and What We Laugh About

In 2009 a young lady made herself sadly famous by publicly displaying the depth of her ignorance. When asked to explain a quote by Confucius, she went on babbling about who Confucius was, in her poor mind. This hit stardom like wildfire, and the entire world was laughing out loud at her. Years after people still remember the "Chinese-Japanese" who "invented confusion". Cyber tongues went vicious about how she was evidently relying on her looks, and yes "the bigger the beauty, the smaller the brains". Though there's people who's stupid, people who neglect studying because they believe they can make it in life with "skills" different than intellingence, thing is that we often don't notice how srupid we are, and how the world around us has been going more and more stupid.

Our education system has been eroding generation after generation, year after year, and as knowledge becomes more available for all of us, our thirst for it is systematically taken away from us. This lady was asked about Confucius. How many of you (not living in the Asian continent) actually know about Confucius, and what can you say about him and his philosophy? How much were you taught at school about him? Year after year school programs get cut shorter, and circuits are run repeating the same information in the most boring of matters, taking minds that would be thrilled by the new and exciting - who in their childhood isn't thrilled about new, unknown things? - and grind them down, make them averse to any form of knowledge.

Children get out of school not knowing their country, having no idea of the presidents that have ruled them or what did they do.

Knowledge today, usually comes from other sources, and so snickery, hidden they are, that often people don't realize it. Cartoons, comix, movies... they mix often classic literature, ancient history or national history with fiction, giving thus the only base to people about classics and historic facts. We laugh at those who's ignorance becomes unveiled, but what about our own ignorance? Is that okay? Because we've been taught by incompetent teachers that anything remotely related to studying must be avoided? Think again.