Please, stop apologizing for your grandparents only having an 8th grade education. You're comparing apples and oranges. Your 8th grade education is not the same animal in any way shape or form. Sometime, go hunting for the 8th grade graduation tests. I've read them, and I never even studied many of the things they were required to know by heart. For the record, most college graduates can't pass those old 8th grade tests.
Lesson? We too often compare the present with the past without factoring in context.
The sad part is that the comparison is too often used as a way to demean and belittle.
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