what are the political implications of mutt college graduates being unable to read english literature?
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/922346

this is a study from 2015 so it actually got even worse now
only 5% of the participants completed the task
>inb4 show race
mostly caucasians

if you can read and understand this then you are in the top 1% by literacy, first paragraph from Bleak House by Dickens

>Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets, as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snowflakes—gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun. Dogs, undistinguishable in mire. Horses, scarcely better; splashed to their very blinkers. Foot passengers, jostling one another’s umbrellas, in a general infection of ill-temper, and losing their foot-hold at street-corners, where tens of thousands of other foot passengers have been slipping and sliding since the day broke (if this day ever broke), adding new deposits to the crust upon crust of mud, sticking at those points tenaciously to the pavement, and accumulating at compound interest.

Original Text:
On such an afternoon, if ever, the Lord High Chancellor ought to be sitting here—as here he is—with a foggy glory round his head, softly fenced in with crimson cloth and curtains, addressed by a large advocate with great whiskers, a little voice, and an interminable brief, and outwardly directing his contemplation to the lantern in the roof, where he can see nothing but fog.

Subject:
Describing him in a room with an animal I think? Great whiskers?

Facilitator:
[Laughs.]

Subject:
A cat?

Note that the subject, who is not accessing any of the concrete details in the passage, finds a subject (the Lord Chancellor) and one recognizable word, [End Page 9] “whiskers,” and concludes that the character is in a room with a cat. At this point, she does not seem to understand what she is reading, and so she links a few words together to form some kind of response.

>>510639183 (OP)
This is pretty grim, but some of the blame might belong on college becoming the new high school, where everyone is expected to go regardless of intelligence or talent.

>>510640553
yeah it's because kids are getting taught useless shit that doesn't interest them and won't make them able to do some job
on the other hand in college there's no incentive to up the quality of education because as long as they pay then everyone is happy, zoomers get their piece of paper that's worth less than toilet paper and college gets their money
it's just a fucked up system that you can't simply rework by making it all collapse first, every party is responsible and every party avoids responsibility by shifting blame and we adopted this prussian schooling model in most western countries