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>>femfos+(OP)
Knowledge of history has gone down, year over year. Students are more likely to get a propagandized and highly skewed caricature of history that leaves out certain "inconvenient truths." This is also an overcorrection.

>>stcred+Zp
Which students, and where? I don't see that happening locally, but perhaps it's different where you are?

>>onepla+Gu
Well over 90% of people those ages I interacted with online are for throwing out principles like Free Speech and innocent until proven guilty -- it just depends on the context for them. To understand those principles, it's necessary to understand their historical origins. Virtually none of the young people in such conversations understood those things and none of them cared. All basically responded to such information as if it was trash. Stuff like, the Magna Carta and The Bill of Rights.

>>stcred+mv
Odd, you'd think that if they are students (and therefore, study), they would be familiar with the concept of creating an informed opinion. Pretty much everyone I've talked to locally has enough knowledge on the UNHCR, Geneva Convention and Fundamental Principles (comparable to a 'constitution' - the base of all other law) and even simpler things like the Trias Politica.

Perhaps there is a difference in that is classified as a genre of 'student' or it's a difference in age group (be it older or younger). It's hard to make comparisons across the world :-)

On the other hand, any case where the people that are forming the 'next' generation don't know how the basic principles of their society work is a sad/bad case.