Re: The Dumbing Down of America

Subject: Re: The Dumbing Down of America
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 12:12:26 -0700

Dan Emory wrote:

> I'm reading the new biography of John Adams. The literateness and breadth
> of knowledge of people back then is amazing.

You're talking about people who were exceptional for their times, and
who had the leisure for self-education. If you read the unedited letters
or accounts of sailors or soldiers from the same period, you'd think
them illiterate and ignorant.

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