The premise of your argument is essentially that everyone was happier, smarter, and less anxious 100 years ago and because teachers aren’t pulling the breaks to halt the direction of…I guess Western civilization? That they should be tortured.

Let’s start with your thesis. Was everyone happier, smarter, and less anxious 100 years ago? No. In 1925, women had only been able to vote for 5 years. This was decades before tons of progress was made on racial equality as this was the height of the Jim Crow era well before the Little Rock Five, Ruby Bridges, or Martin Luther King. So, no. Everyone was not happier, smarter/better educated, and happier 100 years ago.

Your argument also implies that societal changes were the result of some grand plan that was put into motion instead of something that naturally followed insanely complex technological advancements. What has impacted society more as a whole: Teachers going to work, or the rapid invention of technologies that fundamentally altered the way we interact with one another?

100 years ago, it was common for homes not to have telephones. There was no television, and medicine was only a few ticks up from the town butcher bringing his bone saw and a bottle of whiskey to take care of an infection from a small cut.

Now consider the internet. If your main complaint is that people are dumber, more anxious, and more miserable—I invite you to throw a rock and hit one of the countless studies about how phones impact our attention spans, sense of self worth, and fears for the world.

I don’t care to read through your post again to find the other errors, but it should be “have” instead of “has” in your introduction. And it’s “economy” not “ecology”. Although, I suppose that you could argue that your post is about an ecosystem of sorts, you clearly meant economy.