My girlfriend is some years younger than I am, and so is my sister, and all the friends of my girlfriend are younger than me, ofcourse. I'm in university, and she is doing her final exams of high school. In my university they're complaining that the level of high school education not high enough is, and that they have to make the curriculum easier. Well, I find the curriculum already a laugh, and my sister finds it ok, but not supereasy. My girlfriend is REALLY struggling to get the grades sufficient enough to get her degree. I find myself thinking, girlie, if this is already so hard, don't go to university, thats even harder!!! its not just my girlfriend, all of her friends are finding it superhard. And I have seen some of the questions. its not really that hard, in my opinion.
In days like this I feel ancient. I am smart, but not a genius or whatever. but is it likely that I am so much smarter, or that they are so much more stupid, or that the level of education is on a slippery slope?
For instance, their education in English is just poor. Sure, I make a ton of mistakes while writing here, but their level is even lower. In my days we had to read at least one book by DIckens, and we had daily vocabulary tests. Nowadays they can put 'Harry Potter' on the reading list, Dickens isn't mandatory, and vocabulary?! No man, lets just use Google Translate.
wtf?!
In days like this I feel ancient. I am smart, but not a genius or whatever. but is it likely that I am so much smarter, or that they are so much more stupid, or that the level of education is on a slippery slope?
For instance, their education in English is just poor. Sure, I make a ton of mistakes while writing here, but their level is even lower. In my days we had to read at least one book by DIckens, and we had daily vocabulary tests. Nowadays they can put 'Harry Potter' on the reading list, Dickens isn't mandatory, and vocabulary?! No man, lets just use Google Translate.
wtf?!