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gadflyinyoureye
21 days ago
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DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes
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...
Aeolun
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Haha, fair point. It might actually be better to educate them like in the 1910’s.
watwut
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They don't read books for entertainment anymore. They play games people on this forum made. That is about it.
gadflyinyoureye
20 days ago
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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.
asdf6969
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Most people didn’t graduate high school back then
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