Re: Americans are NOT stupid..

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From: Fred Kasner
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 22:11

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Lookout wrote:
> On Thu, 15 May 2008 07:51:15 -0500, Huck <hh@example.com> wrote:
> 
>> http://www.snotr.com/video/1168
> 
> Just watch Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader and you'll agree this
> country is going down hill fast.  I pity my daughter's generation.

But that limited ability to reason and to know a large memory of facts 
to which they were exposed in grade school is NOT some new thing. It's 
characteristic of countries which have compulsory education and most 
jobs that don't need it.
FK

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