
An additional year of school can go for your cognitive health
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In 1972, the UK government increased the minimum age of school leaving between 15 and 16, with the aim of providing intellectual skills for modern occupations. Now, even if these teenagers are from their sixties, another benefit can be created: lower risk adulter. But in research in other groups that are irrigated, this relationship is far from light cutting.
The idea that protects against education dementia is not new. Yaakov Stern Columbia University in New York He proposed in …