Was talking with prof about this essay and he pointed out to me that literacy loss has created whole generations of people unable to access their culture or past. College diploma holders who are incapable of reading the Bible https://open.substack.com/pub/kittenbeloved/p/college-english-majors-cant-read?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Here these college students, English MAJORS, some of them, were asked to read Dickens and describe what was happening in modern language. They were so bad at it the facilitator was sniggering while administering the test

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Tbf to the students educators have been complaining about this since the early 20s. In the intro of how to read a book, the author goes into how uni students couldn't read.

There’s actual literacy test data to show decline over time. 

The key diff between 1940 when “how to read a book” was published and today is the fact we are letting these people into college. 

“standards have fallen to an almost satirical level and there’s no going back.”