Newly Discovered Eighth Grade Exam From 1912 Shows How
Dumbed Down America Has Become. Check out some of
the questions from the eighth grade exam that was discovered. Do you think that
you could correctly answer these?
By Michael Snyder August 12, 2013
Have you ever seen the movie “Idiocracy”? It is a movie
about an “average American” that wakes up 500 years in the future only to
discover that he is the most intelligent person by far in the “dumbed down”
society that is surrounding him. Unfortunately, that film is a very accurate
metaphor for what has happened to American society today.
We have become so “dumbed down” that we don’t even
realize what has happened to us. But once in a while something comes along that
reminds us of how far we have fallen. In Kentucky, an eighth grade exam from 1912 was recently donated to the
Bullitt County History Museum. When I read this exam over, I was shocked at how
difficult it was. Could most eighth grade students pass such an exam today? Of
course not. In fact, I don’t even think that I could pass it. Sadly, this is even
more evidence of “the deliberate dumbing down of America” that former
Department of Education official Charlotte Iserbyt is constantly warning us
about. The American people are not nearly as mentally sharp as they once were,
and with each passing generation it gets even worse….To Read More….
My Take- At
my age I remember tests of this kind in grade school, but not this hard. By junior high school we were moving to
multiple choice more and more. I will
make no bones about it….I would have failed this 8th grade test in
1912. That was a time of little external
communication and deep contemplation and conversation. We have instant information available to us at
the touch of a key board; more than ever dreamed of in 1912; and yet we are
stunningly more ignorant than they could have ever imagined possible in
1912.
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