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

>tho
Seems to me like he'd fit right in

>>25214300
Thos is funny.

>>25214297
105 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

>>25214273
This Unitarian got all his progress almost completely reversed by Andrew Jackson. Might makes right.

>>25214273
His writing isn't great, you only think that because he writes in an old style.
>>25214292
Delusional.

>>25214929
You write something better than this 7 year old kid then.