In this chapter, “Idiot Nation”, the author Michael Moore tackles the theme of education in the U.S.A., with a style that ranges from extremely serious to the ironic pushed, with proposals also sometimes serious, sometimes blatantly provocative. Moore shows us the other face of the American school: so much science, but little historical culture, poor memory, stereotyped behaviors, total dependence on companies that sponsor books and courses of study. With the result that around the 40% of prestigious American universities (e.g., Harvard, Yale or Stanford) can not say in which century took place the American Civil War and “there are forty-four million of Americans who cannot read and write above a fourth-grade level— in other words, who are
