For if you [the rulers] suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves [and outlaws] and then punish them.
Sir Thomas More (1478-1535), Utopia, Book 1
Our brains are like muscles. Physical and chemical connections that are infinitely complex. The more we use our brains the more efficient they become; the more connections are made, more chemicals are mobilised.
Stay sharp, keep alert and exercise your brain. Focus on the three areas that underpin any and all knowledge that we acquire. They are principles based on the ancient philosophies that have defined human existence. These principles are systematically and deliberately avoided in our formal education system. Why? Because they are empowering, they are tools that give us the freedom to see the truth from the lies.
GENERAL GRAMMAR, FORMAL LOGIC, and CLASSIC RHETORIC.