I think you should go to the library and sign out Prof. John Gatto's book "The Underground History of American Academia". You will see that people are not getting smarter but actually dumber. We now have a system of "education" or dumbing down that has taken 300 years to perfect. Populations are always easier to control when they are dumb and dependant on the Government. This is one of the major reasons why the Muslim Populations in the Muslim world are uneducated and indoctrinated (programmed) with such political and religiously molested views. It is well known that the Koran, but mainly the Hadith, portray Jews as evil yet the Koran and the vast majority of Muslims have no concept of what Judaism is, what a Jew is or what their teachings are. Thus the leaders of all these Muslofascist groups and their Anglo-American fabricated tin pot dictatorships can control its dumbed down masses. For ever 1 book published in Arabic there are somewhere in excess of 5000 published in English.
Europe in the 17-1800's had a near 100% literacy rate. This was solely due to the teachings of Judaism as education is a pillar of Judaism as passed onto the masses via Christianity even during the days when Martin Luther was favorable to Jews....before he found out that they would not convert out of their faith...
Education seemed to have reached its summit with German Enlightenment/Emancipation.... Today, everything around us in media, business, politics and academia are decidedly contra to Judaism as they promulgate the collapsed paganist ideology of Greco-Roman Hellenism: Violence, Sex, People/Idol Worship, Materialism, Immorality etc.
One of the most knowledged and dangerous people from that time that did his work to "progress" the world was not Karl Marx, although he did do immense damage, but Sir. Francis Bacon which some argue was the real Shakespeare...
So today it is not proper English but Ebonics or Nigganese