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  • This is what happens when you undereducate Americans for decades and decades - you get ignorent masses who think Death Panels are reality, and that Science is some alternate form of religion, instead of a verifiable way of explaining the facts of the world.

    "Creation" Producer: Theory of Evolution Too Provocative for America? 2009

  • This is what happens when you undereducate Americans for decades and decades - you get ignorent masses who think Death Panels are reality, and that Science is some alternate form of religion, instead of a verifiable way of explaining the facts of the world.

    "Creation" Producer: Theory of Evolution Too Provocative for America? 2009

  • Cheney/Rumsfeld/Bush and their cabal want to dumb down America and the best way to do that is to undereducate the children and restrict and control the media.

    Think Progress » 60 percent. 2006

  • It's impossible for black people in America to be racist, because they do not, as a whole, as white America does, have their own education system that they use to undereducate whites.

    Freedom Center Firing Workers Nathaniel Livingston 2005

  • You can undereducate your youth as much as you like.

    NYT > Home Page By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN 2011

  • PERRY: There's no question about it, parents who are comfortable with a child who gets a C or D, parents who are comfortable dropping their child off at a school that they no is ragged -- they have watched that school undereducate a generation or two -- parents who are willing to go down and fuss and fight when their child doesn't play on the basketball team, but are unwilling to go down and fight the same way when that child is not being served in -- in the classroom.

    CNN Transcript Oct 1, 2009 2009

  • If we ignore them, we’ll undereducate them and they’ll remain on the margins.

    Student Loans for Illegal Immigrants | Impact Lab 2006

  • But then again, I have a degree in economics, and you’re yet another undereducate and overly opinionated propagandist spreading lies – so why would anyone be surprised you know nothing of the topics you discuss …

    Think Progress » Bush Administration Bungled Post-9/11 Economic Relief 2005

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