College Seniors No More Knowledgeable Than 1950s High School Grads

CNSNEWS.com ^ | 12/19/02 | Scott Hogenson

[OldEagle]

You might very well be correct, but can you give an example?

[SamAdams76]

You might very well be correct, but can you give an example?

Sure thing.

I wrote in an earlier reply:

"And what did the students of the 1950s end up doing with their lives? Smoking dope, protesting the war and listening to acid rock. Well, many of them did, anyway."

And you wrote:

WRONG AGAIN!
NEVER TOUCHED DRUGS. DID DO KOREA AND VIETNAM.

I then questioned your reading comprehension because if you read my quote, I clearly qualified "Well, many of them did, anyway."

So just because you were one that didn't, doesn't make me wrong.

I got a lot of replies about the 1950s statement. Many people get confused and think that the hippies came through school in the 1960s. The fact is, the hippies of the 1960s were mostly already in college or even out of college, which means that many of them were going through school during the 1950s.

[OldEagle]

If you had put a question mark at the end of the sentence fragment "Smoking dope, protesting the war and listening to acid rock.", I might have understood that you meant it as a question. As is, I took it as the intended answer to the previous question and saw the next sentence added as an afterthought.
Sometimes reading comprehension depends on the writing.
Do you agree?