I was reading you riposte and then I realized that I was filling my head with your ideas so I stopped… god forbid, I should suddenly and instantaneously become a good liberal by reading words or giving into your ideas and half-ass philosophies.

I know this may come as a shock to you, but education in basic terms is a process built on the knowledge of trial and error of those that have gone before us. Passing onto us what is fact from what is simply theory or fiction.

The very basic act of being able to read and write because a teacher, an elder, a parent, a guardian learned and leaned on the knowledge of those before them that putting together characters from an alphabet made words and words made sentences and sentences could make ideas and theories and facts as well as just tales.

The very methods in which you seem to want to go out of your way to disprove as wrong, pointless or nonsense only seems come back to betray and bite you in the ass.

Any way you interpret it – knowledge is king. It is the only thing when all the smoke has cleared will be left standing and never betray you. The opposite of intelligence is not stupid – it’s ignorance.
Ignorance is a choice.