Here's a thought-provoking essay on the very modern premise that all humans are equally educable and how important that idea is for #democracy :
https://www.exurbe.com/educable/
I recommend it.
Quote: "Let’s return now to our snarky self-labeled cynic, who points at Trump voters and people who are wrong on the internet to joke that most people are fundamentally too stupid to be educated. ... America at present does not live in the world of robust public education and state-strengthened free circulation of journalism which the minds behind the [American] experiment thought were so essential."
...because "a consistent defining characteristic of conservative thought over time is the belief that some people are better at ruling than others, thus that the best way to run a government and society is to put those superior people in power." This has led to conservatives cutting spending on public education.
