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		erosenbe0 on March 21, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I think US college education is nearer to collapsi... Unfounded. There are billions more literate people than in Einstein's day.

_aavaa_ on March 21, 2022 [–]

To their point, it doesn’t matter how many literate people there are if there aren’t more Einsteins.

alxndr on March 22, 2022 | [–]

That sounds like they are expecting a predictable relationship between literacy rates and once-in-a-lifetime geniuses being born…

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