The real big boy and big girl pants moment is realizing we are responsible for our lives and no one else is. I was considered reading impaired in public school and I failed 9th grade 3 times. I also quit school and went to college a year early. 

Nuttall

Somewhat of an assumption that reading and writing makes you smart

arrivederci

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Why Can’t People Read and Write Anymore?

Speaking as someone who's been fostering kittens... the dumb ones are less annoying than the smart ones. 🐱 

@Nuttall's word devolution is apt. It's a devolution of the mind. The pertinent question is whether it's all some negligent accident, or not. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CDaflxJJ0g&pp=ygUaYWNhZGVteSBvZiBpZGVhcyBlZHVjYXRpb24%3D

Either way, it's on us to raise the bar. 