WATCH: Giordano says 'education is upside down'
Campus Reform Higher Education Fellow Nicholas Giordano appeared on Willow! to discuss college students not being taught the foundations of American government, the system of governance, or the Constitution.
Campus Reform Higher Education Fellow Nicholas Giordano appeared on Willow! to discuss college students not being taught the foundations of American government, the system of governance, or the Constitution.
“Education is upside down right now,” Giordano said. “The system has collapsed, most don’t want to acknowledge it.”
As a result, students are “not able to think critically, they’re not able to speak about the issues, and they don’t know the very basics of American government,” he continued.
Giordano, who is a political science professor at Suffolk Community College, gives his students a basic citizenship exam on the first day of class.
“The results have been getting worse each and every year, and we’re talking about basic information,” he explained.
“You just went through an entire K-12 system and you can’t even identify whether or not you are reading the United States Constitution, don’t you see a problem with that?,” he stated.
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Many of the students in his class cannot tell the difference between the Russian Constitution and the United States Constitution.
“We are dumbing [education] down, and we’re dumbing it down at the worst possible time you could imagine because we are in a global competition, it’s no longer just about the United States within the United States,” he said.
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