Oh, come ON! I have BILLIONS and BILLIONS of carbons stashed away in my barn: sacks of charcoal; gunny sacks of left over coal from last winter; cans of oil...
Think about this:
(No thinking)
We don't teach formal logic (The mechanics), fallacies (The mistakes), nor what critical thinking is (How to trouble shoot or test validity). What we call critical thinking in our academia is actually an exercise in group think where all they do is attack the traditional family, gender roles, patriarchal society, Christian values, American exceptionalism and free market concepts. What we teach is "deconstructionism," that's it.
(No morals)
We removed religion from public discourse and replaced it with ethics which in it's nuance meaning is the teaching of right and wrong without using any divine concept. This was done through legislation in 1948 and 1962 which ultimately removed morality from education and replaced it with this man made, relativistic, situationally dependent gibberish that is in reality meaningless, ethics. Ethics devolve to a form of mob ruled by pure hedonistic/utilitarian thought.
(No culture)
The real purpose of teaching the humanities is to convey culture. Ironically today we teach relativism and actually beat into children the idea that making any sort of value judgment is wrong! We teach a revisionist, diverse version of the humanities that leaves out the classics because we try to be contemporary, don't want to offend anyone and ensure all races, religions and geographic regions get equal coverage. So our kids will graduate reading poetry from Maya Angelou (Black woman) and the Story of Pie (Asian) but they won't read Plato's Republic even though they live in a republic. They will learn about meaningless and mediocre artists just because they are female (Artemisia Gentileschi) while masters like Gericult go unmentioned. They won't even mention some art because of it's Christian themes or in the case of Mark Twain the use of a “bad word.” He was only THE most influential writer of his time and actually changed our language, but he's obviously not worth reading....... Beowulf? Nope. Homer? Nope. In fact what the humanities are suppose to teach, the fine art of discerning the value in things, essentially how to discriminate, understanding our own culture and national identity it fails to do in our modern education system. A kid today is unable to see any difference between an Andy Warhol and Botticelli. Even if they saw a difference, they think they would be "wrong" for seeing this and would keep silent.
Kids graduating from American schools are convinced they are smarter than their forefathers because they can operate a game station and surf the web, but they are in reality amoral, uncultured and unable to think unless they are taught this at home. They are easy prey for the Gores and Obama’s out there that fill the empty void of youth with their pseudo religion where evolution is Genesis and Global Warming the Apocalypse, where if you tithe to their green Goddess you get a ticket to their version of heaven. Kids still ask the same questions they always did, where we come from, why, what our purpose is, what right and wrong is....... only today we fill their heads with trash.