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That's higher than I thought. Aren't newspapers written at around third or fourth grade levels?
God, no. Even tabloids are generally written at an 8th grade+ level.
There's some mentioning of things going downwards here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age, like simple machines for the masses where the buttons are moving pictograms of what happens when that thing is pressed... Where on the other side, there's nanomachines built by the educated.