> Only someone looking to scrap is going to ask for a source for someone saying that our country is loosing access to quality education. I am being completely

> Only someone looking to scrap is going to ask for a source for someone saying that our country is loosing access to quality education. I am being completely serious here: I don't know what you're talking about when you make your claim of "violently increasing numbers of uneducated people". Here, from Wikipedia, is a plot of educational attainment levels in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Educational_Attainment_in_the_United_States_2009.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Educational_Attainment_in... And here is a recent relevant NYT article titled "U.S. Bachelor Degree Rate Passes Milestone": http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/education/census-finds-bachelors-degrees-at-record-level.html http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/education/census-finds-bac... Clearly, people have been graduating high school and graduating college in record numbers. For as long as I've been alive people have always been complaining that schools aren't great and "kids these days aren't learning like they used to" but most of that is nostalgic nonsense. There will always be poor schools somewhere. So when you lead off with a claim about "uneducated people", what do you mean? People who don't graduate high school? People who don't graduate college? People who do so but (by your unstated standards) somehow aren't considered "educated"? Nobody would doubt the claim if you had said we had more uneducated people in the 1950s than we do today - THAT claim reflects common sense wisdom. Claiming that it's gotten worse recently is something that needs a clear definition and some supporting evidence.