Anyone who doubts the outcome of allowing schools and colleges to "dumb down" criteria need look no further than the US to see the inevitable results. A nation that was in intellectual and creative flower as recently as the 1950s and 60s is now filled with people who resent and suspect anything and anyone associated with culture as being members of an "elite"; people that can, and should, be removed from the common dialogue and life of society. And this is not the extent of it. Not only have average people lost the ability to distinguish between high art and talentless scribbling, they've also lost the ability to think and reason for themselves -- all in the space of about sixty years.
If it could happen to us, it could happen to you.
Something is not right. This message is just to keep things from messing up down the road