Boy, "better educated than previous generations"? Give me a bloomin' break.
There hasn't been any seriously good education in this country (except at a few places like Thomas Aquinas College in Ojai, CA and the two St. John's campuses) since about 1880 when the good Dr. Conant (president of Harvard) decided that science trumps all, and started heavily diluting what was a fairly decent liberal arts education.
Perhaps "better educated" in the sense that if I want to learn how something works, I can do so - I am not limited by whether or not I am in college, or what is available to learn at my college, or the quality of professors - I am limited only by my desire to learn.
There hasn't been any seriously good education in this country (except at a few places like Thomas Aquinas College in Ojai, CA and the two St. John's campuses) since about 1880 when the good Dr. Conant (president of Harvard) decided that science trumps all, and started heavily diluting what was a fairly decent liberal arts education.