Chapter Four - Revolutionary Girl Lucy
Chapter Four - Revolutionary Girl Lucy
"Attendance in higher education has gone through some periods of highs and lows. Counting from the start of the 20th century when education started to become more prominent throughout the western sphere, we see a sharp rise in the number of people getting educated for longer, with dips during the Great Depression, the two World Wars, and a massive rise during the eighties and into the nineties.
In the 21st century, we see a similar dip during the 2027 Great Depression, and then a sharper fall in the 2030s, with a subsequent rise during the early 2040s to where we are today.
We haven't quite recovered to mid-2010s levels, but we're quite close."
--Rise and Fall of the Educated, a thesis, 2051
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"So, what did you think?" Lucy asked as we stepped back into the Bastion.
"Eh," I said with a shrug. The vice principal had a few things to show us after the cooking class, but the other classes were out at the moment, and so there really wasn't too much to show except for some empty training facilities and some big rooms that had nothing in them. We did meet with one professor, the hardass teacher who did combat training, and I kind of liked that bit, but... it wasn't huge?
"Yeah, I had the feeling you'd feel that way," Lucy said. She didn't sound disappointed or upset about it.