Has anyone ever wondered about the average level of knowledge? What I mean basically comes down to how advanced a civilization is. For example only a few centuries ago we believed frogs came from mud. Things like that have obviously changed. Instead of regions being isolated due to geography or whatever reason the entire world is connected via communication and travel. How exactly is all this knowledge gathered and preserved so that you can go beyond it?
That may seem like a simple answer at first, you could easily imagine schools, colleges, ect. However consider the human postition. The average person does not store anything beyond grade school possibly middle school level knowledge. Some keep enough high school knowledge stored but never move beyond that point. Then there are the college folk. The thing about college is that often you end up specializing in one field. Very few people have college level knowledge in more than a few fields down pat.
So human civilization as a collective seems to support itself by having certain things specialized in so you always have experts on that field. This is good and bad as you could easily imagine, good in that you can focus and improve upon the specification, bad in that you aren’t spreading out the knowledge.
What all that nonsense I just said means in normal terms is like say we want to upgrade Earth to a more advanced stage. You would need to pass along some knowledge to be learned at lower levels so that you could accomodate the new. Or basically New-> lowest college-> high school, ect so that college becomes high school level knowledge.
The sad fact that most people could care less about school around the middle school level means we have a gap and it will be a long time before Earth can fully advance on a large scale.
I have no idea what all I just said means please elaborate for me and make me stop using big words!
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