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Faced with an article I wrote in German, Joe Burke, a high school English teacher from Ogden, Utah, could only muster, "It does not matter which language this article is in—it's as dumb as fuck.”

No counter-arguments. No analysis. No attempt at reasoned disagreement. Just vulgar slurs.

This is not how critical thinking is taught—it is its complete absence. It perfectly illustrates how broken key segments of America’s education system have become: when someone entrusted with shaping young minds can offer nothing better than profanity and lazy dismissal.

Would any parent truly want their child in this man’s classroom? If this is the standard of intellectual discourse he models, what exactly are his students learning?

It also raises a broader question: just how broken is America’s education system?

See my related article: Asia’s Education Machine Is Winning — Should the West Finally Admit It?

https://felixabt.substack.com/p/asias-education-machine-is-winning

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