At the turn of the 20th Century, to graduate your primary education (8th grade), you had to sit for a day long test on subjects from household finances (you need to burn x cubic feet of wood a day to heat your house, this will be a long winter, how many cords of wood will you need to buy) to world geography to knowledge of Greek and Roman history.
At the turn of the 20th Century, to graduate your primary education (8th grade), you had to sit for a day long test on subjects from household finances (you need to burn x cubic feet of wood a day to heat your house, this will be a long winter, how many cords of wood will you need to buy) to world geography to knowledge of Greek and Roman history.
Now we get 12th graders who can't read or write.