All Men Are Created Equal People

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I don't think jefferson meant it in the sense that all men are created equal people. He's talking about king george the third, who thinks he is better than everyon. There's not much evidence that the jefferson had read john lockebut the american system was seemingly a kind of based off of this british concept to have a parliament in opposition to the sovereign. And so we've got this real glitch in the system, which is political parties. i proposed a thought experiment based on what if you could run for congress or the house of representatives without actually having a political party? You can just randomly vote for the republicans on 50 % of seven

Michael Shermer speaks with Chris Edwards about educational reform, his study and teaching of world history, the problems in K–12 education, the zip-code model vs. the seat time model of education and how they result in massively different educational outcomes, how “no child left behind” left children behind, federal vs. state educational systems, cheating scandals and what to do about them, the future of education in a world of free (or nearly free) online learning, comparing the U.S. educational system to other countries. Shermer and Edwards also discuss thought experiments, based on Edwards’ latest book, Thought Experiments: History and Applications for Education.