"The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it." How is it that the American education system seems to have lost the courage to accomplish this?

Lawrence Krauss is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist who has written several books on physics and is currently a professor at Arizona State university.

Of course he really does not need nearly that many credentials to understand the truth of what he is saying in that video.

If we continue to raise our children surrounded by superstitions, and allow that to interfere with their access to knowledge, we are essentially dooming future generations to ignorance and undermining America's chances of holding a position of power in the world.