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" .. we professors, who tend to stay around for longer, are more vividly aware of the steepness of the decline. It has been true for a while, sadly, that quite a few students were pretty much illiterate when they entered public universities. What is becoming more and more true is that many students are still essentially illiterate when they leave .. The popularity of robustly and proudly ignorant politicians like George W. Bush and Sarah Palin might be the most obvious sign that the anti-intellectualism that has always haunted American public life .. "
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Bei uns wird es bald genauso aussehen:
Auch hierzulande geht vermehrt "Ökonomie" vor "Allgemeinwissen" - wozu braucht man das eigentlich ..!?