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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




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