Re:The Original 1851 Reviews of Moby Dick
by pamqzl on Sunday September 10, 2017 @05:38PM
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And although now we've pushed literacy up from 80% to 90-something percent, I wonder whether literacy is actually lower than it was in the 1850s. More people are literate, but those who are literate are on average less literate, because we've pushed our educational standards down in an effort to pick up those last 20%.
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