@TheValuesVoter Rightwing commentators demean higher education, because they think educators are brainwashers like they are, and they don't like competition. But education is primarily about teaching people how to think, i.e. critical thinking, which their uneducated audiences generally lack.
@TheValuesVoter 2/One can learn critical thinking without higher education, and one can graduate from college without it. But the goal of education is to develop critical thinking in students, and it achieves that goal with many motivated students.
@TheValuesVoter 3/Educators are taught how to measure intelligence. Initially I studied education in college, so I remember being taught that.
And although there are some bright minds in Trumpland, they are either not using their full potential or they are using it for evil.
And although there are some bright minds in Trumpland, they are either not using their full potential or they are using it for evil.
@TheValuesVoter 4/It is distressing to watch otherwise-intelligent people swallowing everything they are told by rightwing media, without question, because it aligns with their bias. These are people not using their full intellectual potential.
@TheValuesVoter 5/Then there are GOP demagogues who routinely con their audiences. They are either masters of manipulation, button-pushers curious about how people work, or lawyer-types who play the devil's advocate for profit. They are using their intelligence for evil.
@TheValuesVoter 6/Then there are Trumpers who demonstrate their lack of intelligence by arguing in logical fallacy as a matter of course, and believing that they have 'won' the argument.
