[ryanmarsh]

We give everyone in the U.S. high school education and we don't make the claims you make above.

We used too. A high school education meant something to my grandparents.

[cptnapalm]

I once picked up a hundred year old Latin schoolbook meant for grade schoolers (fifth grade, I think). It was significantly more information dense than the college course Latin textbook I had.

[rbanffy]

Latin was much more important a hundred years ago than it is today. Also, a college education was not a given back then.

OTOH, I can imagine the HS-level Physics books were very different from the ones we studied with, with different subjects given different depths.

[ryanmarsh]

Latin is a good subject to learn as the foundation of many modern languages, and subsequently other subjects such as logic and philosophy.

[ryanmarsh]

You should see the books I was taught to read with. Written in the 1800's. They'd be considered 8th grade reading level these days.

[bradly]

> We used too. A high school education meant something to my grandparents.

Do you have a high school education? The education I got in H.S. had a big impact on my life. I couldn't imagine being done with school at 14 and thinking that was equivalent to 4 years of High School.