A College Degree Is No Guarantee of a Good Life

Re:A College Degree Is No Guarantee of a Good Life by cptnapalm on Friday July 31, 2020 @11:45AM (#24009811)

I once picked up a hundred year old Latin schoolbook meant for grade schoolers (fifth grade, I think). It was significantly more information dense than the college course Latin textbook I had.

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Re:A College Degree Is No Guarantee of a Good Life by rbanffy on Friday July 31, 2020 @12:19PM (#24010226)

Latin was much more important a hundred years ago than it is today. Also, a college education was not a given back then.

OTOH, I can imagine the HS-level Physics books were very different from the ones we studied with, with different subjects given different depths.

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Re:A College Degree Is No Guarantee of a Good Life by ryanmarsh on Friday July 31, 2020 @04:38PM (#24013725)

Latin is a good subject to learn as the foundation of many modern languages, and subsequently other subjects such as logic and philosophy.

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Re:A College Degree Is No Guarantee of a Good Life by ryanmarsh on Friday July 31, 2020 @04:37PM (#24013698)

You should see the books I was taught to read with. Written in the 1800's. They'd be considered 8th grade reading level these days.

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