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Sara the Editor's avatar

Growing up homeschooled, I read dozens of books per month for fun, and was shocked when my public school "peers" didn't enjoy reading or considered the books I read too advanced for them. As an adult, I am frequently taken aback by the mass ignorance, where just normal, oblique Bible or mythology references are completely unknown by college graduates. What, exactly, is their lifetime of debt buying them?

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Moose Antler's avatar

All true and well presented. I've discussed this subject with some very smart, but not very online friends and they seem incapable of accepting that this is the state of the world. I wonder what makes this so hard for so many smart people to accept?

Having tutored GED students in the past, it has always struck me as cruel to suggest they are just a bit more funding or perhaps a better sense of personal responsibility away from reading Aristotle. In my experience they were hard-working people and there was no shortage of resources available to them.

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