The sad thing is that many of the people in the street don't give much better answers than they might have before public education.
Unfortunately I haven't been able to dig up the source, but someone did man on the street interviews like this before public education and the answers were surprisingly similar to anything put out today.
I get the impression that there was an "arc of literacy" where there was a point most people were completely ignorant of most things not immediately in front of them, and then there was an era where the common man soaked up books as a primary entertainment source, and lately we've been almost back to where we started with most people never reading anything other than text messages and being pretty limited in their engagement with the outside world.
Unfortunately I can't find any real data to back any of this up. I could be totally wrong and maybe everything's fine.
Unfortunately I haven't been able to dig up the source, but someone did man on the street interviews like this before public education and the answers were surprisingly similar to anything put out today.
I get the impression that there was an "arc of literacy" where there was a point most people were completely ignorant of most things not immediately in front of them, and then there was an era where the common man soaked up books as a primary entertainment source, and lately we've been almost back to where we started with most people never reading anything other than text messages and being pretty limited in their engagement with the outside world.
Unfortunately I can't find any real data to back any of this up. I could be totally wrong and maybe everything's fine.
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