[lbo-talk] U.S. working class: functionally literate

Autoplectic autoplectic at gmail.com
Thu Mar 3 20:22:26 PST 2005


On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 22:47:51 -0500, snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com <snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:


> Frankly, I seriously doubt people are that much dumber than they used to
> be. The narrative of decline is present in every damn generation.
>
> As grad students, we'd sit around bitching about our students and how
> standards are shot to hell. You know, at your ripe old age, we thought the
> Young Ones just weren't up to par! :) Then, one day, I listened to the
> older faculty talk about how standards are just shot to hell and this
> year's current crop of grad studs (us), well, it was just too much for my
> mentor to bear. :)
>
> I smiled to myself, remembering the reading I'd been doing about my discipline.
>
> You see, his profs had been saying the same thing about him and his
> graduating cohort. And the profs before that about the grad students before
> that, who grew up to complain about how their grad studs just weren't as
> good as the Old Ones.
>
> s.s

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