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To: SauronOfMordor; 9YearLurker; djpg; rarestia

Please go to #20 to see the Kansas 8th grade test given in 1895.

Don’t be thrown by the arcane measurements, [rods, bushels etc.] as they had been taught to the Kansas farm kids all along.

The rest of the test [English, geography, history, etc] is just as depressing, comparing how far standards have sunk in a century and a quarter.

It was not then so remarkable that 2 Ohio bicycle shop owners invented the airplane, tested wing profiles in a home-made wind tunnel, designed their own aluminum-block ICE engine, etc.

Their 1890s high school educations were more rigorous than college today.


29 posted on 12/13/2022 4:27:23 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

Students of the late 1800s wouldn’t know what a microsecond, a coulomb, or a giga-byte happens to be either. Hand them a DVD and they wouldn’t have a clue what it does. I never used a peck or a bushel or a rod in any work I have done. Times change and so does the necessary knowledge base.


110 posted on 12/13/2022 8:06:02 AM PST by GingisK
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