In the 50s, 60s and early 70s they did.
But not anymore.
A small part of the general dumbing down, doncha know.
A small part of the general dumbing down, doncha know.
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And a truly fine job of dumbing down is what they have done! I recently had a conversation with a young man in his mid-twenties who (as seems to be fairly typical now) is working at a job that could have been done in the fifties by a high school dropout had there been computers to operate in the fifties. He is a fine young fellow and holds a degree from a local “University”. I asked him a few questions about government and history and most of them were beyond his knowledge, some he answered correctly but seemed to be guessing. I then indulged in a great cruelty! I informed him that everything I asked him about involved what were elementary school studies in the fifties and were all things I had to know to advance beyond the seventh grade and they were so drilled into me that I could not possibly forget most of them if I tried to. I doubt that anything less than the final stages of alzheimer’s could make me forget yet college graduates do not know these things now! Young people who know nothing of the history of the country may be expected to vote for Obamalamadingdong because they have no way of knowing better.
I believe a majority of our HS grads believe we lost the Revolutionary War and that our enemy was North Vietnam.