I think that the thing that seprates humans from lumps of rock floating in space is the fact we have a human mind! Why is there so many people that dont use it? That dont ask why? The education system is one example. They "teach" people to blindly memorize information and not really think for them selfs or create interest.
I don't know what it's like where you are, but in England there is too much emphasis on getting kids to "think for themselves" and not enough emphasis on learning facts. What good is thinking when you don't have the knowledge to make anything of it?
The progressive idiots who have meddled with Britain's education system think there's something snobbish about teaching kids about spelling and grammar, or about teaching them subjects like Classics. The result: thousands of kids who leave school barely able to read and write, and who think there's nothing more to life than soap operas and rap music.
As Confucius once said, "To learn without thinking is fruitless;
To think without learning is dangerous. "
