I suppose it was a dream that lasted really about fifty years. By the time universal education had begun to work properly, say 1925, and the time the first teachers started to hold back information, say 1975. So a fifty-year dream.""I think what's happened is that because they themselves know less than their predecessors, innovators and leaders today have remade the world in their own image. Spellchecks. Search engines. They've remodeled the world so that ignorance is not really a disadvantage. And I should think that increasingly they'll carry on reshaping the world to accommodate a net loss of knowledge.
The quote reflects on the evolution of education and knowledge over the 20th century, suggesting that it began as a hopeful ideal around 1925 but saw a decline by 1975. This shift is attributed to teachers who began to withhold information, which contributed to an overall degradation of knowledge among educators and influencers. The idea is that foundational dreams of universal education have not fully materialized, leading to a loss of...
