A testimonial to the great advances in our education system in the last 100 years.

Sometime during the last eight or ten years I read about a test given to several hundred recent college graduates from a number of different colleges. The test included questions on math, science, English, history and geography. Don’t hold me to the exact figures as I am reporting from memory, but the point remains the same. The result was: on average, more than half of the questions were answered incorrectly. None of the college grads answered more than about eighty percent correctly.

The test? It was from a 190? Minnesota school system standard requirement test for graduation from the eighth grade. To pass a student had to answer 85% or more of the questions correctly. In most years - early 1900s - more than ninety-five percent passed. Hmmmmmmm??