> My takeaway from the piece, however, was that teaching the ability to communicate (writing), is in decline.
Isn't it another case of us idealizing the past? Like the "declinie of morality/society" which actually is like it always has been? I used to think that writing and reading skills are maybe really in decline, right until I saw this xkcd:
That xkcd post also allows for the condition of perpetual decline. That life has become faster paced and less open to concentration on production of communications and artistic works continuously over centuries.
I think there's probably a strong case to be made for that within some strata of society.
Isn't it another case of us idealizing the past? Like the "declinie of morality/society" which actually is like it always has been? I used to think that writing and reading skills are maybe really in decline, right until I saw this xkcd:
http://xkcd.com/1227/
As for today I don't know really of any social decline that really is.