I remember how mind-blowing it was the first time I heard podcaster Tom Woods ask "Why are our classrooms decorated with the portraits of US Presidents rather than the portraits of inventors and titans of industry?"

Think about that for a second.

Many schools these days would suspend classes if their buildings lost electricity, HVAC or their fleets of school buses broke down, and yet, you'd be hard pressed to find a K-12 classroom whose decor memorializes the inventors of the very inventions which make it possible to conduct classes. Instead, they celebrate Presidents.

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"Dr. Gentry said over the last ten years, politics have been more relevant in schools and school boards."