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On 11 Jul 2024 at 01:32:44 BST, john larkin wrote:

>>> I was just talking to a fellow old fogey (who is literally a Fellow) and
>>> we agree that young people are getting stupider, so the productivity
>>> increase probably can't  keep up.
>> 
>> Well, to be fair, that phenomenon is confined to the West and is due to
>> the dogmatic insistence of Leftists that all are equal and must be
>> educated accordingly. So the classes grind away at the speed of the
>> slowest ship in the convoy ("no child left behind" - George Bush Jr -
>> RINO). The brighter children in the class are thus dumbed down at best (at
>> worst, switch off altogether and start sniffing glue) and grade inflation
>> is employed to fudge the facts and make it appear that everything's fine
>> when it most assuredly isn't. This is definitely NOT happening in
>> countries like China and that is why they're kicking our arses and have
>> been for some time.
>> 
> 
> A bigger problem is kids getting bogus degrees, like film-making and
> sociology and journalism and comparative literature and music theory.

Seriously? Can you imagine a world where society doesn't educate people in
such things?

I say 'educate' rather than train or skill. To understand how to do something
is one thing - to understand it and form an opinion is (often) something else.

-- 
Cheers, Rob, Sheffield UK