Could you pass this test? A general examination to test eighth grade students in Kentucky's Bullitt County school system in 1912 has stumped some adults and ignited a debate over the intelligence of children today
Could you pass this test? A general examination to test eighth grade students in Kentucky's Bullitt County school system in 1912 has stumped some adults and ignited a debate over the intelligence of children today
More parts of the test at the source. Also, more excuses from today’s educators.
I wouldn’t have passed the spelling test, especially with words like “eneeavor.”
Today’s educators denounce “rote memorization” as a skill.
It’s a required basis for the rest of learning. It’s part of the “grammar” stage of learning, on which being able to think logically and discuss logically.
Of course, those last two stages would be detrimental to the communist movement, so knock the foundations out before anyone gets started on that “logic” nonsense.
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I had to look up “kalsomining”.
Wrong question.
“Are schools much, much worse than a century ago?”
Were children smarter? Unlikely. However, those who reached 8th grade had been taught what they needed to pass this test over the prior 8 years. If they didn’t pass - and it would be interesting to see the pass rate - they were done with formal schooling and went to work.
Were children smarter a century ago?
No. They just weren’t as dumb—which has to do with the information they are given to work with.
Just watch Jay Leno’s Jaywalking routine for proof of the moron eruption in an “enlightened” stronghold like LA.
Rote memorization? I challenge the person making that statement to answer the math questions with partial fractions.
Sure, it’s not the way these things are taught now, but, it can be done and the question was designed that way.
Disgusting.
I used to have my multiplication tables (through 12) memorized to the point that a teacher could stop the class, propose a multiplication problem, and I wouldn't need to write or think. It was automatic.
Same went for spelling tests and vocabulary.
Rote memorization was the cornerstone of my upbringing and my education, and it's still the cornerstone of education in countries like India and China where they are kicking our collective scholastic asses across the globe.
This country is lost.
They were certainly better educated, no question.
But, then, hey, we have to bolster the self-esteem of our young morons as they destroy society all around us.
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The main issue would be understanding how many feet in a yard or mile and how much a cord was but I would have known how to get the answers to all of these by the time I finished sixth grade.
‘But to be fair/excuse my stupidity, some of the answers, especially history, are very different now that we know more of the truth.’
Does that mean that now history has been changed to reflect the truth as the teachers see fit?
No they weren’t smarter, they learned different stuff. I’d like to see any of those 8th grader reinstall an OS or even program a DVR.
Yes kids are a lot less educated now, but they “feel” they are much smarter. That is all that is necessary for Communists to take over, so, that is what they did to the kids.
Kids are kids, feed them pride and they will be proud and stupid. Teach them to read and think and they will be humble and wise. Proud and stupid makes great slaves. Humble and wise makes great leaders.
Government has a lot of stupid leaders, they want slaves not competition.
Yeah, but these 1912 kids use an I-pad???