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That may actually be an improvement. One of my math teachers in high school hated the text books and gave us sets of problems from the 1950s. Instead of 20 easy problems, it was 3 much more difficult problems. The problem in our education system is the standards are in the toilet because they are afraid to fail people. This does not cost money to correct.

Is that because we’d bring standards back? Harvard is finding that students can’t read books. https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/10/why-elite-students-ca...

Haha, fair point. It might actually be better to educate them like in the 1910’s.

They don't read books for entertainment anymore. They play games people on this forum made. That is about it.

No. Modern kids in the US were trained on short form articles. As a result they experience anxiety when as to read a single book per semester. They really hate being asked to read multiple books per semester for just one class.

Most people didn’t graduate high school back then

What about educating them the way we did in 1980?