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I didn't mean to imply that older people are incapable of learning.

However, there are substantial barriers to that demographic to return to an education program precisely because it is a "return". Those barriers are far more social than anything else, yet they remain.



Economic ones too. Going to college after high school nets you 40 years of increased wages. Doing that at 40 only gets you 20.




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