Are We Graduating Too Many “Educational Illiterates”?

In the United States, we spend more money on education than any other country in the world. You'd think with that expenditure that we would be turning out mostly qualified intellectually savvy graduates, but it seems instead, we are turning out too many “educational illiterates”. We must be doing something wrong. If you watch enough current events news programs on T.V. when they interview students and young adults on the street or on the campuses of colleges and universities, when you ask simple questions like, “What is Auschwitz known for”, you get blank stares and no answers. In addition, I saw a “persons on the street interview” where the person conducting the interview asked the interviewees what they thought about the Trump tax plan. Almost to a person, they thought it was terrible and favored only the rich 1% and corporations. Then the interviewer asked the people about Bernie Sanders tax plan (but the questions asked were actually provisions of the Trump tax plan). All said that they agreed with “Bernie’s” plan.