Not even one week has passed since Betsy "Grizzly Bear" DeVos took over as secretary of education in the Donald Trump administration, and already our nation's children are markedly dumber, thanks to a misspelled tweet from the agency.

W. E. B. Du Bois was a prominent African American sociologist, historian, and civil rights activist. He was the first African American to graduate from Harvard University with a doctorate degree and co-founded the NAACP.

W.E.B. DeBois, however, is the name the United States Department of Education attached to a quote by and photo of Du Bois on Sunday in a tweet in honor of Black History Month. Three hours after posting, the tweet remained on the department's account, uncorrected.

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The quote by Du Bois, which reads, "Education must not simply teach work—it must teach life," should probably be edited to include that education must also teach spelling.

Update (Sunday, 1:19 p.m.): This Twitter account is the gift that just keeps giving. The Department of Education issued a tweet apologizing for the error, but there was misspelling in the apology ("deepest apologizes" instead of "deepest apologies"), which has now been corrected. Again.

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Post updated - our deepest apologies for the earlier typo. — U.S. Department of Education (@usedgov) February 12, 2017

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