How come John Adam’s 7 year old son can write better than half of /lit/?
Seems like most posters either did not read when younger or do not read now
Higher standards. The founders were some of the most educated men in the country. From the Puritans on to the mid 1800s left a high watermark. That little boy would've had a personal tutor, studied Greek and Latin and would've read great works daily.Farm boys in single-room school houses full of children of all ages in the 1920s would've been more educated than the vast majority of current college students today.
>>25214292> Farm boys in single-room school houses full of children of all ages in the 1920s would've been more educated than the vast majority of current college students today.I doubt that, you watch too much Spielberg
>thoSeems to me like he'd fit right in
>>25214300Thos is funny.
>>25214297105 IQ and extremely ignorant
>>25214279"and/or" is uglier on the page, but "either/or" seems to imply some exclusivity, like it couldn't be both.
My parents didn't deign to teach me how to read before elementary school at like age 7-8. Didn't do shit in kindergarten
>>25214273This Unitarian got all his progress almost completely reversed by Andrew Jackson. Might makes right.
>>25214273His writing isn't great, you only think that because he writes in an old style.>>25214292Delusional.
>>25214929You write something better than this 7 year old kid then.
There was nothing much to do except read for entertainment. Hence the magnitude of literature out there.
>>25214876Its the great trick the elite play on the hoi polloi, that you should wait until the staye educates you and gives you the right books to read and when. It is a dullard factory meant to conform the masses.
>>25214273Because he's been held to a higher standard at a younger age. Kid's asking for advice on time management so he can study and play more efficiently, that's not something that just happens.
>>25214273Karens and their lax soi attitude took over. Now keep quiet and binge edutainment from this school ipad.
>John Adams' son wrote this, and then everyone clapped!
>>25214876>>25217624As a fellow victim of state education, who had no real higher intellectual faculties until I reached my early 20s, I am going to homeschool my children and give them the opportunities I and many other children lacked.
>>25214297Read Democracy in America, the US had probably the strongest reading culture in the world. The printing press and early education meant that all classes, even farmers and laborers would read every day.
>>25214273>John Adam’s 7 year old son can write betterhe's no longer 7, and has in fact been dead for hundreds of years
>>25217769>hundreds of yearsNot quite.
>>25217776Grew up to be one of the most destructive presidents we've ever had, by the way
>>25217679You still lack those opportunities. How are you going to give them to your “children”?
>>25214929A true progressive!
>>25217776>ERM ACTUALLY HE'S ONLY BEEN DEAD 178 YEARS NOT "HUNDREDS"fuck you, fuck your family
Wait isn't he 10 at that date
>run-on sentence>missing comma after "Composition">random capitalization
>>25217788I get insecure and lash out when someone points out my errors, too.
>>25217797>>random capitalizationThat was normal in English at that time
>>25217815your biggest error was ever being born, your second biggest error was deciding to bandy words with me, knave
>>25217820>>25217820>bandy words with me, knave I like the cut of your jib, fella. Excuse my pedantry.
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