…general education seems to be dead.
…learnt…
Is this intentional irony?
Edit for the down voters:
Learnt and learned are both used as the past participle and past tense of the verb to learn. Learned is the generally accepted way of spelling it in the United States and Canada, while the rest of the English-speaking world seems to prefer learnt for now.
Why for now? The American English tendency toward making irregular verbs into regular ones has started influencing British English, which is why the -edvariant is being used increasingly around the world. Soon, learned might be the most common form everywhere.
We were taught that it was only okay to use T in some words that end in D, for instance build -> built.