# Speaking of idiocy in education... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 2, 2004, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-idiocy-in-education/277736 "2004-12-02T18:50:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-idiocy-in-education/277736/101 "2004-12-06T05:16:40Z")
Pretty much everyone is taught about evolution in school these days. Judging by the vast amount of ignorance that exists concerning that topic, we might be better off not teaching it at all. Tell kids that it’s dirty knowledge and they shouldn’t know about it. Tell them that there’s too much sex involved in evolution for it to be taught in schools. Then perhaps they’ll all sneak into libraries to read about evolution and acutally learn something correct about that biological process. Maybe adults will stop asking questions like: “If humans evolved from chimps, then how come there are still chimps around today?” Of course I’m just kidding, but you have to wonder… ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-idiocy-in-education/277736/102 "2004-12-18T22:49:33Z")
> [@Dewey Cheatem Undhow](#): > > There are several problems with this analysis. It occurred to me that I still haven’t gotten a response from **Dio** on the problems I pointed out with his analysis. **Dio** , you care to respond? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-idiocy-in-education/277736.md?page=5)