"Dave J" wrote in message
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Matt,

I think you make some good points about education, and it is true that
more kids go to college than ever before. But there have always been
mediocre students and good students, people with varying talent,
energy, and skill. The mediocre today are perhaps going to school and
"passing" when in the past they would have done something else, and
"failed.

BUT, among all the good and bad students, there are also many more
good students, and the number of slots at good schools is not much
greater than in the past.

I don't how to qualify "good students", but I notice man college people,
even at Ivy League schools, are woefully lacking on any number of subjects.

Competition to get into elite universities
is more intense than ever.

Yet they keep lowering their standards. The VERY elite schools have not
caved in, but we're talking about no more than the top couple percent.

Read some of the tests and surveys and it's shocking and embarrassing how
dumbed down our schools have become over the past 20-30 years. I'm talking
colleges and universities; the elementary and high schools are even worse.