NEVER MIND MY LAST POST

I have long known that I am an ill-educated buffoon compared to the English gentleman of a century past--now I learn that I am merely sophomoric even beside the man who mined his coal. Here is a fascinating article discussing the level of education and thought in the British slums of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Reading towards the end of the article, I begin to wonder when precisely American education became so Marxist.