[huijzer]

> As a result of the educational trend away from intellectual discipline, the last decades have shown in the Western world a sharp decline of people's mastery of their own language

Dijkstra already wrote this in the 80s and today many teachers still complain about this fact. I also know that, at least in the Netherlands, the curriculum is judged based on the percentage of students that pass. If too few students pass, then the material is made easier (never harder!), so you can imagine what happens if this process continued for half a century by now.

[kebman]

South Africa is a sad example of this. And so systems are deteriorating country-wide.