Re:Albert Einstein in 1939 composed a message for the people...
by svnt on Friday November 10, 2023 @02:52PM
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It was a very different educational reality back then.
High school education was not at all common until the 20th century.
That means most of Einstein’s contemporaries, the masses, would have had between a 50-80% chance of a haphazard middle school level education. [0]
Contrast this with his peers in the sciences who were extremely well educated and an early generation if not the first generation of globally-connected world-class minds and there is no ambiguity about what he is saying.
High school education was not at all common until the 20th century.
That means most of Einstein’s contemporaries, the masses, would have had between a 50-80% chance of a haphazard middle school level education. [0]
Contrast this with his peers in the sciences who were extremely well educated and an early generation if not the first generation of globally-connected world-class minds and there is no ambiguity about what he is saying.
[0] https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED606970.pdf