Some have suggested our vocabulary has shrank as we became more stupid....being a back gravel road hillbilly raised in a house with no running water or plumbing and one little fireplace for heat that lined up at age 5 for the mass polio drinks....it is a wonder we can say much more than "da...whad da say"?
Many people think the amish are stupid because none of their teachers ever went past 8th grade, yet most all of them speak 2 languages by age 5.
I never liked school, never seen the point in it, if it was not for spell check, on the computer, I would be in really bad shape.