What do you think people did before the current public school system was put in place in the early 1900’s?
Where did all the brilliant men and women who created the foundation of our science, math, art, and literature come from then?
It seems to me that there were more men and women of genius then than there are today.
“It seems to me that there were more men and women of genius then than there are today.”
True, but the few hundreds of thousands of possibly good students will not be enough to stave off societal collapse caused by the weight of uneducated and drugged zombies razing the countryside.
Also, you must not be acquainted with the post-humanist thought being promoted by our betters. They don’t think they need humans anymore. They say this is the last non-designed generation.
Read the letters to home from Civil War Veterans who were taught by their Mothers. They could write legibly, use language like a poet, and describe situations and humanity in a superior manner. I bet they could add, subtract, multiply, divide and everything else that govt schools were instituted to provide also.