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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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