Bad Education 🎉

If you type "Bad Education" into a search bar, you’ll find two things: the 2019 Hugh Jackman film about a shocking school embezzlement scandal, and about fifty million parenting forum rants about Common Core math.

Seek out bad education the way a sommelier seeks out flawed wine—not to drink it, but to understand what good tastes like. Argue with your old textbooks. Fact-check your favorite teacher's pet theories. Let bad education spark the rebellion that good education never could. Bad Education

And that’s a pretty good education. B+ (points deducted for frustrating millions of students, extra credit for keeping the critical thinking industry alive). If you type "Bad Education" into a search

Because here’s the truth they don’t put on motivational posters: Fact-check your favorite teacher's pet theories

But only as a spectator sport.

Think back to your own schooling. What do you remember more vividly? The perfectly delivered lecture on photosynthesis? Or the time your history teacher confidently explained that "the Civil War was about states’ rights... period," and you spent the next three hours fact-checking him on your phone?