American students are being stunted

Recently a university professor made a tweet that has gone somewhat viral. He's astonished and appalled that university freshmen don't seem to have even the most basic knowledge of the most notorious events of history, such as when the Holocaust happened, or even when the two world wars happened.

But, more notably, he's appalled at the complete lack of curiosity shown by the students. When he told one of these students that she was wrong about when the Holocaust and the two wars happened, she did not get curious about when they did happen, what the correct answer is; she did not ask for the correct answer. Apparently she was completely uninterested. (I can imagine that she either shrugged and said "ok", or just looked at the professor with a blank dozed-off stare that showed absolutely no interest in the subject. I get some "valley girl" vibes from this brief description.)

I doubt that the professor made this tweet based on just one single student. I would guess that this particular example was just the tip of the iceberg, the straw that finally broke the camel's back, and induced him to write the tweet in frustration, as I would imagine he had encountered this same level of ignorance and complete apathy dozens and dozens of times.

It's easy to guess why this is happening.

Public schools, especially in the United States (and to an increasing amount in other western countries as well), are not teaching students to be curious and inquisitive. They just info-dump a huge bunch of memorized facts on them, year after year, with little to no interaction, with little to no attempt to make the students ask questions and be curious and inquisitive.

In fact, over the past 10 or so years schools, at all levels, in the United States have more and more indoctrinated students into not asking questions, not doubting, not having skepticism, and just accepting what they are told as facts that cannot be questioned. This, obviously, for contemporary political reasons (ie. far-leftist "social justice" "critical race theory" trans-activism reasons). Which means that students are outright punished for questioning, for doubting, for asking questions, for having differing opinions, for challenging what they are told.

And if that weren't bad enough, the amount facts (or in increasing amount claimed "facts") that are info-dumped on the students have over the years become less and less about known historical and scientific facts, and more about political doctrine and historical revisionism. Students aren't being taught when the Second World War happened because the teachers are too busy teaching them "social justice", "diversity and inclusion", "critical race theory" and "trans rights".

No wonder students are so ignorant and so apathetic when they reach university. Their heads have been filled with political propaganda instead of historical and scientific facts, and they have been indoctrinated into not questioning anything, into not being inquisitive and curious, into not being skeptical. For the most part they aren't even interested in such a boring subject as human history because they have been indoctrinated into caring about one thing and one thing only: Unquestioning far-leftist political activism.