24 Dec. 2012
Original by: Patrick Henningsen
RI: I remember a while ago, one of the US officials in Louisiana told me that the main reason for the low turnout in the US elections is the education system in this country. "The government has gradually removed the essential teachings of any democratic system lessons from the course syllabus he said, "causing the new generation to forget about their role in protecting democracy, leaving the political powers to abuse the vacuum situation", he added.
It was quite interesting to hear such a thing from an official, though he was not ready to say it on the record, but receiving this video showing how deeply the US educational system has gone down is really worrying: Teaching students to glorify pre-emptive actions against another nation, here, Iran!
