> No one said "smarter", they said "more skilled".
No one said dogs, either, they said schoolchildren. It’s an analogy. Either way, it makes zero difference to the point. You could change my word to “skilled” and it would work the same. Skills are learned and thought, that’s what matters.
> A perfectly legitimate answer to that question might be that we stopped teaching them.
Which is what I wrote as the first sentence. The second is merely an analogy to exemplify that notion.
No one said dogs, either, they said schoolchildren. It’s an analogy. Either way, it makes zero difference to the point. You could change my word to “skilled” and it would work the same. Skills are learned and thought, that’s what matters.
> A perfectly legitimate answer to that question might be that we stopped teaching them.
Which is what I wrote as the first sentence. The second is merely an analogy to exemplify that notion.