WEll, yes they are. It's a common side effect of mass market growth in any industry -- the original motives get lost, the numbers become th only criteria, mediocrity supplants the older criteria of quality, things get rushed, sloppy and second-rate. Education is now a commodity rather than an adventure into the stratosphere, at least for many of those in the machine; and the only way out is through individual; responsibility and insistence on one's own quality of effort. All of which is merely a hasty opinion of the sort that makes the decline happen! :>)



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