I'm very sad (physically so) when I run into these things. Another anecdata: - found an old junior high school math book: they had lessons on finances, taxes,

I'm very sad (physically so) when I run into these things. Another anecdata: - found an old junior high school math book: they had lessons on finances, taxes, maybe compounding interests. All in simple terms, no mathematical proofs or analysis. Still very useful long term knowledge. - someone on reddit posted pictures of his grand father's notebook. Biology lecture notes about plants. It was utterly beautiful, drawings and writing, superb regularity, density .. Saying it looked like a product wouldn't be exaggerating a lot. And now your comment got me to think that this seem to be a worldwide trend, not even a nation-wide education system degradation. That's super odd.