I suppose, if you were taught, repetitiously, that certain things were true, certain things were not true, if you were never ever encouraged to think beyond certain established limits... then you simply would not know how or maybe even, would be afriad to. And thinking that you had an intellectual answer to fill empty space with, you might even think quite highly of yourself in the process.

I have been reading this book here:
Underground History of American Education
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/

I think you both would find it very insightful, not perfect probably but very insightful.

...We have, for example, the great H. L. Mencken, who wrote in The American Mercury for April 1924 that the aim of public education is not

to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence. ... Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim ... is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States... and that is its aim everywhere else. ...

..But what shocks is that we should so eagerly have adopted one of the very worst aspects of Prussian culture: an educational system deliberately designed to produce mediocre intellects, to hamstring the inner life, to deny students appreciable leadership skills, and to ensure docile and incomplete citizens 11 in order to render the populace "manageable."

Have you noticed a strange commonality among the evo proponents for instance... that none of them seem to think about, much less complain about, things like mercury poisoning... vaccines... experimental 'medicine' with the population as guinea pigs?