Look at Dewey and Wilson's (yes, President Wilson) quotes regarding education. They wanted a two tier system, no education for the proles, and a decent education for the elites.
And then look at pre-1920s 8th grade exams. Latin, Greek, World Geography, World History, Calculus...
You don't even need to compare a century old exams, you can notice a drop in subjects and depths even in college (hard) engineering degrees such as electrical engineering.
In my country the good ol' Netherlands (where both taxes and sea levels are too high) a hts (hogere technische school, or higher technical schools) of few decades ago included far more in depth mathematics and practical approaches to circuit problems compared to todays bachelor schools. Back then you had to understand the subject fully in either class or in library. You practically could not fill the gaps of education with the aid of online tutorials or online teacher's resources on Youtube. Compared to my current hbo (hoger beroepsonderwijs or higher professional education) bachelors degree education, there is a noticeable gap in knowledge and way more fluff courses which take away time and depth from the core of electrical engineering.
As a personal anekdote, I have tried analogue circuits exams from few decades ago and I did not know answers or made way too many mistakes in them, which signifies a gap in knowledge compared to older/ senior electrical engineers in a typical engineering firms.
Agreed on the drop in recent years, I included the older example for magnitude. But all technical subjects are dropping like a rock... most "IT degrees" don't cover any deep theory or hands on fundamentals...
Hell, I like TR, and his progressive education system has a specific purpose: putting kids in a factory environment to prepare them for work in heavy industry. It's literally the purpose of the bell system and periods. The purpose of highschool was to make sure you were ready for a job in a factory.
And, while that's got plenty of problems all on it's own, the fact that a highschool education isn't even enough to prepare you for factory work, and neither is a college education, is a massive signal to the failure of the public educational system, even to meet it's own progressive agenda.
While that may be part of it, I'm not sure it's a recent development. Having been around a bunch of different family a lot lately, the fear narrative has gotten in deep. They will say they aren't going to live in fear or whatever, but their actions betray their words for the most part. Really only commonality is they are women, and that's not me being TheImpossible, just that I think the powers that be know that's where the door is open.
Wood is carbon neutral because the tree took the exact amount of carbon out of the air that is put back by burning the tree. That's not to say wood is sustainable because if everyone used wood for heat there would be a net loss of wood resulting in a net increase in carbon.
Their "fossil" fuels are renewable too then. Where do they think they came from?
But yeah, there's more stupidity in the average climate changer's rhetoric than their is in the average Covidian's scare talk.
Almost makes you wonder if the people in charge intentionally dumbed down our school systems to create these people.
Look at Dewey and Wilson's (yes, President Wilson) quotes regarding education. They wanted a two tier system, no education for the proles, and a decent education for the elites.
And then look at pre-1920s 8th grade exams. Latin, Greek, World Geography, World History, Calculus...
You don't even need to compare a century old exams, you can notice a drop in subjects and depths even in college (hard) engineering degrees such as electrical engineering.
In my country the good ol' Netherlands (where both taxes and sea levels are too high) a hts (hogere technische school, or higher technical schools) of few decades ago included far more in depth mathematics and practical approaches to circuit problems compared to todays bachelor schools. Back then you had to understand the subject fully in either class or in library. You practically could not fill the gaps of education with the aid of online tutorials or online teacher's resources on Youtube. Compared to my current hbo (hoger beroepsonderwijs or higher professional education) bachelors degree education, there is a noticeable gap in knowledge and way more fluff courses which take away time and depth from the core of electrical engineering.
As a personal anekdote, I have tried analogue circuits exams from few decades ago and I did not know answers or made way too many mistakes in them, which signifies a gap in knowledge compared to older/ senior electrical engineers in a typical engineering firms.
In America, our decreasing average IQ tracks almost perfectly with mass immigration.
Since 1900? I don't buy that given the improvement in literacy alone.
Agreed on the drop in recent years, I included the older example for magnitude. But all technical subjects are dropping like a rock... most "IT degrees" don't cover any deep theory or hands on fundamentals...
Hell, I like TR, and his progressive education system has a specific purpose: putting kids in a factory environment to prepare them for work in heavy industry. It's literally the purpose of the bell system and periods. The purpose of highschool was to make sure you were ready for a job in a factory.
And, while that's got plenty of problems all on it's own, the fact that a highschool education isn't even enough to prepare you for factory work, and neither is a college education, is a massive signal to the failure of the public educational system, even to meet it's own progressive agenda.
Morons have always existed. What changed is that now they're allowed a vote.
While that may be part of it, I'm not sure it's a recent development. Having been around a bunch of different family a lot lately, the fear narrative has gotten in deep. They will say they aren't going to live in fear or whatever, but their actions betray their words for the most part. Really only commonality is they are women, and that's not me being TheImpossible, just that I think the powers that be know that's where the door is open.
The worst & funniest thing I've ever seen actually came from Michael Moore making a documentary about California's green energy efforts.
One massive piece of this documentary is where he recorded a "bio-fuel plant" which was burning wood pulp for energy out of raw timber.
Like.... really?
I would bet money that you could honestly burn wood into charcoal and and have less pollution than that.
Wood burning is automatically zero carbon. Another tree has to be planted to replace the one you burned.
Wood is carbon neutral because the tree took the exact amount of carbon out of the air that is put back by burning the tree. That's not to say wood is sustainable because if everyone used wood for heat there would be a net loss of wood resulting in a net increase in carbon.
Wood isn't a fossil fuel.
They don't care about the environment so much as making other people do all the work to make their lives easier and healthier.