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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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Agree with that too. Wider range of educational opportunities for more people (women, minorities) is a big plus. There's moreinfo but most people aren't getting it and most don't care. I don't think it really matters that much. The guy working at Wal-Mart has the same lack of education that a guy working at the "five and dime" did a few generations ago. Wal-mart employees and cashiers don't need an education. The American scientific output is still tops in the world and elite US schools still pump out thousands of exceptionally well-educated students. Yale. Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Cornell, Brown, Cal Tech, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Penn, Duke. That's an impressive list of schools just off the top of my head. Many more.