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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by Aeolun on Saturday February 22, 2025 @09:09PM (#43145620)
> That would be scaling with population, not GDP.

Educating kids the way we did in 1910 would certainly be cheap, but I don’t think anyone in the country is looking for that.

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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by biztos on Saturday February 22, 2025 @09:52PM (#43145938)
What about educating them the way we did in 1980?
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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by gadflyinyoureye on Saturday February 22, 2025 @09:56PM (#43145968)
Is that because we’d bring standards back? Harvard is finding that students can’t read books. https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/10/why-elite-students-ca...
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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by Aeolun on Saturday February 22, 2025 @11:39PM (#43146592)
Haha, fair point. It might actually be better to educate them like in the 1910’s.
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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by watwut on Sunday February 23, 2025 @02:03AM (#43147323)
They don't read books for entertainment anymore. They play games people on this forum made. That is about it.
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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by gadflyinyoureye on Sunday February 23, 2025 @08:21AM (#43149048)
No. Modern kids in the US were trained on short form articles. As a result they experience anxiety when as to read a single book per semester. They really hate being asked to read multiple books per semester for just one class.
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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by asdf6969 on Sunday February 23, 2025 @04:42PM (#43153497)
Most people didn’t graduate high school back then
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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by fallingknife on Sunday February 23, 2025 @03:36AM (#43147797)
That may actually be an improvement. One of my math teachers in high school hated the text books and gave us sets of problems from the 1950s. Instead of 20 easy problems, it was 3 much more difficult problems. The problem in our education system is the standards are in the toilet because they are afraid to fail people. This does not cost money to correct.
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