“Students got more and better education in one room schoolhouses than in all the huge bricks and mortar universities filled with computer equipment.”
I nominate that the FR comment of the day. You make me think of my grandfather (born 1909) and his older brother (born 1891). Both men grew up in Grey County, ON (northwest of Toronto and near Lake Huron) and went to the same one room rural schoolhouse.
I am sure that if both men were to come back (as they passed within a few months of each other in 1984) and see how being both barely coherent and very rude is so commonly routine and accepted in our society nowadays, they’d be positively shocked.
It’s hard to know whether the breakdown of society is the reason for the breakdown of education, or, whether the breakdown of education is the cause of the breakdown of society.