Quote Originally Posted by Husar
Because a good education teaches critical thinking and certain values such as democratic values. I t shows people the options they have, teaches them how to make a good choice and how top see more than the obvious propaganda. At least I like to think that this is what my education taught me.
I would contest that education actually prevents or diminishes the sort of hasty planning characteristic of anger and fear, physiologically-speaking.

Certainly not to the extent necessary for stable-yet-inclusive governance, and hopefully not to the extent that can be achieved by impinging directly on the source.

We already know that education does not provide a good predictor of the efficacy of personal decisions or perspectives, that education often merely allows one to convince oneself in more detailed terms. Why should we take as a precept - and this is an open empirical question - that education decreases cognitive and behavioral impulsivity?