Presumably, after twelve or more years of education,...

We never had any education, it was all indoctrination.
Theories so insane and convoluted that you just had to believe the teacher.

• The earth's center is a big ball of magma
• Man evolved from apes (although our similarities are only superficial)
• The speed of light is fixed and maximum so space has to curve so these things can remain so.
• Capitalization changes words to proper nouns.... except when used in the constitution.
• The civil war was all about slavery. Although most southern people didn't own slaves.

We aren't taught reason and logic.
We are indoctrinated with convoluted "I told you so's"

Its "I told your so's" all the way down.