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Originally posted by Gutterboy
100 years ago only the intellectually elite got to use textbooks at all.
And what do you mean "higher level"? Evolutionary biology, relativity, genetics, and many other things taken for granted today had yet to be invented. If anything, we suffer today because we've got too much information to process.
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Go to an old bookstore. Pick up a 100 year old 5th grade reader. Compare it to what they read in 5th grade now. Huge difference. You can do this with any grade level and get the same results.
You can't compare modern science with things that hadn't even been invented back then but there are constants, math being one of them and English being another.