If you want to understand the real state of modern education, try a simple test.
Ask young adults basic questions:
- How many years are in a decade?
- What century are we living in?
- When was the United States founded?
These are not specialist questions. They are not advanced academic topics. They are the kind of basic knowledge that anyone who has spent more than a decade in formal education should answer instantly.
And yet many cannot.
In this recent video interview, several young Americans gave answers ranging from 100 years to 10,000 years for a decade. One confidently stated we are living in the 20th century. Another believed the United States was founded in 1842 rather than 1776. (Perhaps the latter answer would be understandable for foreigners to not know, but for American students to not know the foundation of their own country is a basic and crucial part of their history).
These are not small mistakes. They reveal something much deeper: a collapse in basic knowledge despite years spent inside the education system.
The Promise That Was Sold
For decades, the message from the Establishment has been clear:
Work hard at school. Go to university. Get a degree. You will be prepared for life. You will succeed.
Parents repeat it to their children. Schools reinforce it. Governments build policy around it. Universities market it aggressively.
But a simple question has to be asked:
How can someone spend 15–20 years in education and still not know the most basic facts about the world?
Something is clearly broken.
Young people are being pushed through a system that promises opportunity while quietly stripping away their intellectual foundations.
The System That Educates… Without Educating
The modern education system increasingly focuses on credentials rather than competence.
Students are taught to pass exams rather than understand reality. They memorise information briefly, repeat it for grading, and then forget it immediately afterwards. The goal is not mastery — it is certification.
And once that certificate is obtained, the conveyor belt continues:
School → University → Debt → Employment.
Yet employers increasingly complain that graduates lack critical thinking, basic knowledge and practical capability.
So what exactly have they been taught?
The Culture of Self
At the same time, a powerful cultural shift has occurred.
Many young people now spend enormous portions of their lives inside social media ecosystems where image, popularity and online identity dominate attention.
They know the latest trends.
They know influencers.
They know viral content.
But many know little about:
• History
• Economics
• Philosophy
• Human nature
• Their own psychological development
In other words, they know very little about what actually makes them human.
And without understanding that, it becomes almost impossible to discover their real potential.
This is one of the many reasons why Charlie Kirk campaigned so hard to show people that college/university is a scam. This video shows the very epitome of such self centred delusion in students:
A Generation With Enormous Potential
The tragedy is that today’s young people are not lacking knowledge.
Far from it.
They are growing up in the most information-rich environment in human history. The sum of human knowledge is accessible instantly. The tools available to them are extraordinary.
What they lack is guidance toward meaningful self development.
Instead of being taught how to think deeply, they are often trained to perform academically and socially.
Instead of being encouraged to understand themselves, they are pushed to construct digital identities.
Instead of discovering their potential, they are encouraged to follow a predefined route designed by institutions.
The Real Loss
When education fails, society loses more than knowledge.
It loses human potential.
This generation is arguably the most infantilised there has been; less prepared for life, for dealing with real problems, for taking basic levels of responsibility, let alone to innovate and create value using their unique human endowments. They may walk out with a degree, yet often more alienated from themselves, from the real world, and from serious prospects of forming a meaningful life.
That is not education.
That is a quiet theft of potential.
The Wake-Up Call
A scam has been crafted over generations. The latest are merely the most targeted victims of an Establishment that has masterfully sold the lie of education, while educating young people out of fundamentally useful and crucial knowledge; starting with themselves. Young people need more than qualifications.
They need:
• Intellectual curiosity
• Real historical and economic understanding
• Critical thinking skills
• Self-knowledge
• Character development
• Meaningful community and mentorship
These are the foundations of real human development. Without them, education becomes little more than a bureaucratic process that produces graduates without wisdom. And a society full of so-called “educated” people who do not truly understand the world because all they learn is theory in the classroom and as we can see from today’s videos, even that is becoming very limited! It is crucial to understand that the Establishment wants citizens that are very easy to control. Therefore our education at school focuses on knowledge outside of ourselves. It teaches very little if anything about how to achieve our potential by developing our human endowments. These are our self awareness, our creative imagination, our conscience and our independent will. By limiting these the Establishment creates lemmings to fit into the machine they have created for us. We will be explaining more imminently, about a range of initiatives to help citizens achieve more of their God-given potential.
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This is such a damning indictment of this generation—and, I’d argue, of all generations to some degree—but particularly of this one. Our attention spans are shrinking, and we’ve become accustomed to instant gratification. Knowledge is always at our fingertips, yet our ability to retain it, let alone learn it deeply, seems to be diminishing.
We’re rarely taught anything truly pragmatic at school or university; for the most part it’s theory and books. What we need is a real education—one built on character, experience, and lived understanding.
Thank you for this incredible piece.
The degree I did, 20 years ago, no longer exists. It’s one of the many realities that expose this so called education system. It really is a scam and infuriates me, that young people believe they are growing, developing, building their lives and they’re just being funnelled into a vortex in life. I can’t even find it humorous that people like that young lady don’t know basic answers. It’s saddening, depressing and upsetting. God have mercy on us.
Thank you! This has helped me to understand why I left school unprepared spiritually, emotionally, psychologically, intellectually and why I did not understand the critical need for meaningful relationships and mentorship.
Quiet theft of potential – wow! That is exactly right…the examples of these young people and their struggle with basic knowledge, is not a laughing matter at all, the infantilisation and fragility of younger generations now is shocking to witness and ought to be extremely disturbing to them and to the older generations.
Thank you for laying out what is actually needed for young people as I am coming to understand how detrimental it has been personally to not receive these crucial foundations,
Oh my..watching these videos and in particular the first one…a 10 year old ought to know that. I know that everyone forgets things, but that is not forgetfulness, that is ignorance and never having learned it in the first place! I know that particular podcast has asked women “what’s the minimum salary your future husband needs to earn per year and often they get answers like “2-5 million per year” and the host would ask “what do you bring” and then you hear the silence. Scary how the Establishment has numbed our human desire to learn and be creative.
When reading this I have images of scenes from the Pink Floyd music video Another Brick in the Wall. This video was made decades ago and yet it still pretty accurately reflects what the education system is doing now. In many ways it’s actually worse! There’s so much woke ideology being pushed at students that the academic standards seem to be decreasing rather than increasing.
What does that mean? Everyday citizens are less capable of thinking for themselves and easier to control. This was tested at an extreme level on the black population at the time of apartheid in South Africa and we’re seeing it across the world.
It’s so important that young people are developing the qualities listed towards the end of this post, and a lot more!!
Reading this makes me think about how much people trust the education system to shape the next generation well, when in reality so many come out feeling less equipped to think independently. We’re told it’s all for opportunity and progress, yet many leave with huge debt, narrow frameworks, and little encouragement to question the system itself. That should concern everyone.
Something is dreadfully wrong. My heart goes out to these young people who are blissfully unaware of how limited they are, that they can’t even do basic sums or know how many months there are in a year. The worst thing is that they are oblivious to their lack and the impact of that lack.
Why? Their lives are so comfortable that they never notice, and everyone else around them is in the same boat. This is worse than horrible, this is evil at the root. To starve someone of their potential is one of the worst things you can do to someone.
This really is a wake-up call. We cannot continue with our education systems in the same way we have for so long. They are very limited in the first place, and the evidence increasingly shows that they are not working as they ought to. If so many people have such significant gaps in basic knowledge and understanding, then something is clearly wrong.
When I look back at my own education, I would say that character development was hardly addressed. The importance of meaningful community and mentorship was something I had barely even heard about, and certainly not something that was presented as essential.
Things need to change urgently. Education ought to help people discover what is true, develop character, and learn how to live meaningful and responsible lives based on truth. Amen.
Not knowing how to think and understand the world around us means we are completely dependent on the will and intentions of those who do. That is a very dangerous way to live.
It is SUCH a scam. How is it that every year, in the UK at least, they are boasting about record exam pass rates and yet the people coming from these institutions are less and less knowledgeable? It makes sense that those who hold power and most of the resources do not want a well informed, mature, intellectual and critically minded public because such a populace would be able to see right through what they are doing. Instead children and young people are being almost lobotomised of their potential through establishment indoctrination and what they aren’t being taught. It’s time to free the minds, hearts and souls of people from this covert prison system they’ve lulled us all into.
What you are sharing here shows me that the one thing that the majority of people come out of university with is a hefty loan to repay. I have had conversations with young people working in coffee shops who graduated from uni, with honours and master’s degrees, but are unable to use that degree. This is a huge scam.
Every graduate from high school ought to read this before deciding on the rest of their lives.