The problem is not just the things we do not know (consider the one in five American adults who, according to the National Science Foundation, thinks the sun revolves around the Earth); it's the alarming number of Americans who have smugly concluded that they do not need to know such things in the first place.
Susan Jacoby, 02-17-08 op-ed, Washington Post. The NYT reviews her book here, The Age of American Unreason.
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