Cosmos as required watching? Wut about muh Freedums?

It had been suggested that the T.V. show "COSMOS" with Neil
DeGrasse Tyson should be "required"viewing for children, Americans
and even all people of the world.

Many were against the idea claiming that NOTHING should be "required"
in America.

Here are my thoughts....

The topic of required viewing is an interesting one. I am all for freedom and definitely know what people mean as far as being against "required" anything. But consider this for one moment....

Would you "require" a person to receive driving instructions before they are out on the road with their 1000 pounds of metal and rubber car pointed at you? Would you "require" a person to have certain training before they design your building or a bridge that you will trust your life to?

I say this because it is an important question.... the question is, 

Is it safe to have ignorant people walking around who lack basic critical thinking skills and will believe things even after they have been proven otherwise? Is it safe to have science "required" in schools but taught in a boring and dull way that causes future adults to have no interest in such an amazing subject? This boring way that science is taught in schools was said by Carl Sagan to be the reason that so many intelligent Americans fall for and even crave pseudoscience that is no where near being true.

I know that the American commenters here are obsessed with freedom and this is a great thing, until it gets in the way of logic.

I would just say that there are MANY things worse than being "required" to see this wonderful show about things that are actually real. Things like this just might save our ass.