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Your radical ideas about education have already occurred to Plato, Charles Murray. Considering that 230 years ago, one-fifth of a nation consisting of 20% slav
by dgordon 18y ago
Your radical ideas about education have already occurred to Plato, Charles Murray.
Considering that 230 years ago, one-fifth of a nation consisting of 20% slaves, 50% indentured servants, and unschooled farmers for most of the rest, bought Common Sense, which isn't exactly beach reading, I'm not too impressed with his claim that 80% of people are inherently incapable of college-level work.
- kingkongrevenge 18y agoI've seen the claim that "The Deerslayer" sold so many copies in the 1840s that most American households must have had a copy. The idea of the majority of Americans even attempting to read a book like that now is just ridiculous.
- dgordon 18y agoI don't know about The Deerslayer, but The Last of the Mohicans (about which you could say the same) sold millions of copies, so it would not surprise me.