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b_b  ·  3733 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: America dumbs down: a rising tide of anti-intellectual thinking

In the 19th c. people were illiterate at very high rates.

http://nces.ed.gov/naal/lit_history.asp#illiteracy