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World Wars happened and everyone died. US schools had all the money and took off, and the handful of other institutions in the Old World did alright. Lots of
by red-iron-pine 3y ago
World Wars happened and everyone died. US schools had all the money and took off, and the handful of other institutions in the Old World did alright.
Lots of new science to uncover, a lot of which would be basic 100-200 level college courses these days. lotta new things to pioneer. my grandpa did a lot of work with plastics, for example, that are now pretty basic; new stuff then, but now no one thinks about their 0.9 cent plastic lid on their coffee.
lots of mobility but the world wasn't hyper connected, so you could do a trip to somewhere more obscure like Indonesia or Zimbabwe and do research. Now you can just email them the questionnaire.
Years of high schools pushing college now means there are legions of grads, plenty of whom will chase academia. smaller world + growing demand = ruthless academic posturing.