The American education system DID NOT fail to do what it was designed to do. The dumbing down of the population was deliberate, especially by special interests who wanted “worker drones” and easily manipulated and compliant drones – idiot mass consumers – instead of painters, philosophers, thinkers, innovators, and pioneering entrepreneurs who used their imagination and liberty and freedom of thought.
“The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky