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Except the number of people who received that education was much smaller than the number of people who go to average-quality schools today.

Here in Brazil people complain about the public schools of today, saying that 50 years ago it was great, there was latin, and french, and this and that. They all forget that the public schools from the 1960's were for the middle and upper classes (here in Brzil). The poor either had a couple of years of some very basic education, or just went to work and had none at all.




That is the main problem.

We don't have Elites or high class anymore.*

We only have "averages".

* Talking about education not economical status




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