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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"People were more religious before education became compulsory" according to a Notre Dame
researcher. The GOP's anti-education/anti-science stance is probably tied to this.
There is a link to a PDF file below.
http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/07/people-were-more-religious-before-education-became-compulsory/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+harvardbusiness+%28HBR.org%29
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,514 posts)It's easier to control the masses when they are ignorant and fearful.
mnhtnbb
(31,382 posts)cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)They want workers just smart enough to run the machines and fill out the paperwork,
And just dumb enough to sit around the kitchen table not realizing how they have been screwed.
This creates ripe minds for the evils of religion to sprout and fester.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)No power holders want a well-educated general population.
Which is why, today, public education is on her last legs, devastated by decades of increasingly brutal attacks.
Many of which have been promoted by Democrats.