I’ll bet his very basic math and language skills are still solid though. The USA has a problem where we have a significant number of 18-year-olds that can’t even write a sentence. My great-grandmother, on the other hand, was able to run a business, keep a daily diary, go to nursing school later in life, raise a household, etc. all with just an eighth-grade education. What a decline.
The average PhD couldn’t pass an 8th grade final exam battery from 1910. Much less a politician or teacher. Lol.