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To: Don Lloyd who wrote (4377)11/1/2000 2:40:26 PM
From: The Street  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 13056
 
<<The result of a century and a half or so of public compulsory education is that 99% of college graduates today
have inferior educations to what was the median for the sixth grade graduates of a century or more ago. <<

I have a real hard time believing that! Just Libertarian propaganda...

;->



To: Don Lloyd who wrote (4377)11/1/2000 6:43:42 PM
From: The Philosopher  Respond to of 13056
 
The result of a century and a half or so of public compulsory education is that 99% of
college graduates today
have inferior educations to what was the median for the sixth grade graduates of a
century or more ago.

Your basis for this?

And how many students in 1850 even had a 6th grade education? (For starters, drop out the entire slave population.)


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