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Recently, I watched a YouTube video by some expert who explained using graphs how the average IQ has steadily decreased over the last few centuries. Leaving aside how IQ was measured in the past, I found it all convincing, if not reminiscent of the film Idiocracy. This leads me to believe that those engineers who built spectacular things in the past, they who never had the benefit of any textbook or manual, and only knew what they learned from their immediate predecessors and from their own intuition, were far, far smarter that even our modern-day physicists and rocket scientists, who, as newton put it, are standing on the shoulders of giants.

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I went to school in Northern California when their public schools were excellent. In 5th grade, Animal Farm was read in class. Same with The Count of Monte Cristo in 6th grade. I believe that everyone in that class tested at 12th grade reading level.

Nowadays, the kids aren’t challenged, their time is spent on smart phones.