School was so much easier back then. Way less to learn.
Exactly. Heck, back then, they hadn't even invented half of this stuff yet.
Oh, you learned a few things. But you learned
different stuff, you didn't learn
more stuff.
There's more that you
didn't learn in college, then or now, or even thousands of years ago, than you
did learn.
You two didn't learn the Base 60 Babylonian multiplication tables (not an easy thing, try it without a computer), nor did you learn to read Persian in cuneiform. You didn't learn the history of Chicken Pot Pie. You two didn't learn medicine. You didn't learn Mandarin. You didn't learn law. You didn't learn the rules of South Indian Carnatic classical music. You still don't know how the ancient Romans invented a concrete that cured under water. You didn't learn how to play the oud. You can't design a dome that won't collapse. You can't do an oil painting like my brother. You don't know how to work the low note foot pedals on a classical organ. Where is your knowledge of the etiology of diseases affecting the chimpanzee? You didn't learn how to write or compose like Bach.
You could have learned to become a classical trumpet player in an orchestra. Instead, you chose not to. You could have learned sculpture. You didn't. You could have learned to fly jets.
You can't design a functioning sewage system to save your lives.
Why are you not manufacturing automobiles or autoharps? I'm not seeing you on stages acting or directing. Where is your expertise in metallurgy, or hydraulics? Why did you never learn to read Cicero in the original Latin? What's the difference, philosophically, between Descartes and Sartre?
You don't know how to manufacture a tire. Or aspirin. Or bulletproof glass.
I'm still waiting for your finished novels, gentlemen. I'm not seeing your published papers in subatomic particle research. Why?
You are lost when it comes to running a farm. I'm not seeing you running the New York Stock Exchange, either.
Yet you could have learned all of these things, and an infinite variety of more things, in college during my era. You could have learned them in your era -- but didn't.
So I don't think you learned more stuff than I did.
You learned a few things, a tiny sliver of the pie of knowledge. Perhaps you're a genius, who worked hard. Perhaps you're not, and skated by instead. But in either case, you didn't even scratch the surface of the sum total of human knowledge.
No one does.
So what is your claim to superior learning in college?
Nyah Nyah.