Re: The Dumbing Down of America

[Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>]

Dan Emory wrote:
 
> I'm reading the new biography of John Adams. The literateness and breadth
> of knowledge of people back then is amazing. 

You're talking about people who were exceptional for their times, and
who had the leisure for self-education. If you read the unedited letters
or accounts of sailors or soldiers from the same period, you'd think
them illiterate and ignorant.

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