The quality of this thread is really disappointing. Conservatively, about 80% of the replies, criticisms, suggestions, re-framings, here are addressed in the article by the author. About 20% of the replies here are responding to the title alone (and therefore focused on Einstein/progress in hard science).
The piece is about the kind of education the children of the aristocracy received and how it has disappeared entirely.
The piece is about the kind of education the children of the aristocracy received and how it has disappeared entirely.