1912 eighth grade exam: Museum offers look at exam from 100 years ago

http://www.examiner.com ^ | august 12, 2013 | shawn s. lealos

[Kenny Bunk]

Hate the game, not the players

Thanks Jim Noble. I needed that. The purpose of public school today is "socialization and equalization," not education. I shall remember your thought when attempting to communicate with the exasperatingly ignorant products of modern public education.

[Cvengr]

On the other hand, most kids today would be scared to feed chickens or even clean out a chicken roost.

[Jim Noble]

Reading and writing? See Trayvon's texts

Unfair comparison. The people who wrote that exam never imagined, in a million years, that Trayvon would ever take it.

[Idaho_Cowboy]

The kids that took that test knew “0” about politics, computers, lasers, high tech machines, cars, airplanes, diseases etc, etc.
Don’t degrade our kids over a 1912 test. Ridiculous.

---

We have them, but that doesn’t prove kids know how to build or even operate them beyond the most basic level. I suspect if you could take some modern kids back to 1912 they would learn a lot of basic mechanics and the fundamentals our modern machines have made obsolete.

Which is easier to operate:
A Honda Civic or a 1912 motorcycle?
Which one is more advanced?