[Sca-cooks] Jonathan Swift was an Optimist

[chirhart_1]

I,m already sobbing ! Bring out the food.......
----- Original Message -----
From: <jenne at fiedlerfamily.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Jonathan Swift was an Optimist


> >     Weep? You'd better start sobbing hysterically. I have a copy of an
8th
> > grade final exam from 1895 that I'll be willing to bet that VERY few
people
> > on this list could pass. And on the whole, I'd also be willing to bet
that
> > as a group, we're a LOT better educated than the mooing masses being
granted
> > high school or even college "diplomas". If you like, I'll post it for
your
> > enjoyment. Then consider what an "8th grade education" meant then as
opposed
> > to now.
>
> Well, yes, in those days 8th grade was a terminal degree!
>
> (Note that there are obviously a lot more things that 8th graders need to
> know and pass exams about than the 8th graders of 1895. I took algebra in
> 8th grade. Even in the between war years, most people only encountered
> algebra in college.)
>
> -- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa
> jenne at fiedlerfamily.net OR jenne at tulgey.browser.net OR jahb at lehigh.edu
> "Are you finished? If you're finished, you'll have to put down the spoon."
>
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