In defense of flat earthers (2020)

The rise of this phenomenon puzzled and concerned me, until I saw the recently popular viral video of a high schooler questioning her math education ,and it all made sense. We have Flat Earthers because of the way our education system works. If your education was like mine the number was handed out as a given and about a day was spent describing how stupendously big this number is. The main problem is that most of the facts we are taught in school are all just things that were read in a book or told by an authority figure. How would you go about locating mitochondria in a cell? How would you convince a skeptical person that mitochondria not only exist but are in fact the energy producers of the cell? How would you calculate Avagadro's Number? Even being off by many orders of magnitude is still enough to convince yourself it's a huge number. Being able to prove these things from first principles is real science. If real science was taught in school and children were given mental models and frameworks to prove and test their beliefs, it wouldn't be so easy to convince someone to believe in the absurd.