Also by Laura Penny: Your Call Is Important to Us For my family and my fellow nerds CONTENTS One Don’t Need No Edjumacation Two At the Arse End of the Late, Great Enlightenment Three Is Our Schools Sucking? Four Screw U or Hate My Professors Bully vs. Nerd: On the Persistence of Freedumb in Five Political Life Six More Is Less: The Media-Entertainment Perplex SevenIf You’re So Smart, Why Ain’t You Rich? Notes A portrait of the author as a young Poindexter. Chapter One