I don't particularly think the situation at present is good, or that we should rest on our laurels. I just take issue with that way that it's presented as a dec

I don't particularly think the situation at present is good, or that we should rest on our laurels. I just take issue with that way that it's presented as a decline from some golden age when we knew how to educate people properly. I don't believe humanity as a whole has ever been that smart. The issue, as I see it, is that there are ever more jobs requiring intelligence, and ever fewer that don't. Employers complain about the shortage of people with technical skills because they need more of them, not because there are fewer than there were in the past.