The internet can be used for knowledge (but books are strictly better) but most often it's used as a mirror. Trouble is, it's a mirror for people who're already narcissistic and think learning anything without immediate benefit is somehow a burden.
As a professional artist with a 50 year career, and a teacher, I have to say I am in agreement. Young people have no awareness of art, whether contemporary or historical, and NO interest in it. I am very saddened by that often, feeling that I truly am, already, an anacronism.
I’m sure you could have said the same thing about a kid in the 1950s-60s getting a record player and using it to escape the “serious world” by listening to rock n’ roll. Kids have, and always will, find ways to seclude themselves from the adult world- that’s childhood. This is not a new thing. There’s absolutely no evidence that this generation is any less intelligent or less mature due to technological development. You look at countries in Europe which have the same technology as we do in the states, and they don’t have the same problems with kids being socially underdeveloped, uninformed and unopinonated, and having poor judgement. Kids don’t need more exposure to so-called adult things, they have the same amount of exposure to serious matters as previous generations, if not more with longer school days, and less free time. Kids don’t need less connection with each other. They need more connection and interaction with each other. The problem is the way that parents and schools have decided to raise kids over the past couple decades in the US. American parents are so hyper fixated on their kids physical safety that they don’t let them go ride a bike to a friends house on their own, and then get back for dinner. Whenever a kid breaks their arm at recess, the parents freak the fuck out. And the response is to tear down the playground, replace it with something hypersafe, shorten recess, or even, in a lot of states, eliminate recess altogether. In doing these things, kids lose their ability to develop sound judgement and critical thinking skills. They also lose out in social abilities, imagination, and creativity. And, since the kids are banned from playing and having fun, the parents respond by handing them an iphone or sitting them in front of the TV. These sorts of practices don’t exist in Europe. Parents there put hard limits on their kid’s screen time and make them get outside. When they need to entertain a kid on a train, they pull out a board game, give them a coloring book, or an action figure. Not an Ipad. They have long recess, and they don’t sue the school if their kid breaks an arm on the playground. I leave you with this, remember Charlie and the chocolate factory, Mike Teavee, one of the naughty children? His problem was that his parents let him sit in front of the TV all day and because of that his imagination was dead, and he became “dull and blind.” Charlie and the chocolate factory was written in the 1960s. The problem isn’t the computer. Its the parents.
No way you just said that? As a young person myself; the amount of being I displayed before and increasingly see with my own eyes is astounding. I blame the parents; millennials and the boomer generation are the worst.
If the school curriculum has been dumbed down then surely it can be undumbed up.What I have in mind is school choice where schools committed to teach the lost ideas, knowledge and skills discussed in this video can open their doors to students whose parents see this as a desirable learning path. What I particularly have in mind is a rigorous preparation for college in the final years of high school - so that students can enter college with a grasp of thinking and analytical schools and the concurrent speaking and writing skills.Is all this too hard. Not if you want it badly enough!
At 16:14 he echoes Marcus Tullius Cicero, the great Roman orator, statesman: "The purpose of education is to free the mind (of the student) from the tyranny of the present."
Your intellect and skills are only as good as your teachers and mentors. Times were different in my time, we had apprenticeships, and mentors and experiences that are not shared freely today regardless of the digital technology today. It's different today when you change and omit facts history, and curriculums things get distorted and lost. All studies should be examined and researched it is the only way you will find the truth. Dont just read a book and come to a conclusion do the research and study all the facts. Don't follow the crowd lead! Do all your homework. You must know all the history so you won't repeat the bad! Wisdom comes with experience! Be inspired and create a world that is positive!
Guy wrote this book just as the smartphone was being introduced. Just about anything he's saying here needs to be put in the context of that and I think most of us can reckon that means it's a whole lot worse.
I used to say that to my friends it's funny how he used that WW2 question as an example . I would say to them that the easiest way to weed out someone with below avg intelligence is to ask the group what year WW2 started and ended ...
Here's the thing, education has become extremely political, left leaning political. Also schools for years now have been teaching kids to score high on state mandated tests. They don't get that good of an education. Educators are more concerned with free sex education and social issues instead of finance and useful skills. My baby mama like many high school grads completely choked when she went to college.
Sorry for the Typo I'm on a stupid Smart phone that won't allow me to go back and edit my comment. I should have said they "embrace" every liberal attitude.
I’m 36 years old, grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and I have to say observing kids from 16-25 currently they are complete morons. They act terribly, their morals are terrible and have no strive to do anything other then satisfy their own brainless short term needs. If you quiz them about anything from the past they are clueless. They can laugh all they want, they are only going to decimate their own lives as the sands of time slip through their hands and they proceed towards the inevitable, the death of their parents which is their life line. For the past decade as I’ve grown older I just assumed I was wrong about what I noticed going on with the younger generations around me, then found it to be nationwide knowledge that they are incompetent morons.
Hahhahaha not our fault you guys fucked our lives up schools here are the worst in the world and I have to find a way to pay for my student loans you guys didn't do anything you were all just lucky
You can’t blame a dog for acting bad when the owner hasn’t even trained them. You blame the owner. We were born into this world where I can’t even walk on a Main Street without fearing that I’m going to be kidnapped. Most of gen Z is still in school. We are learning, growing, and the way we act at our age has been seen in other generations. Give us a chance to fix our broken world we came into.
@Boston 508627 True, the SAT scores are the lowest they’ve ever been by one point, only differing by 32 since 1972 which is a large time. This was also in 2012. Talking crap about ten year old isn’t the best idea. Half of generation Z hasn’t even got out of school. We are still very young. I appreciate the research. Nice job.
Anyone seen all the meme's making fun of kids/adolescents remote learning 2020? If I saw this last year, id probably say "OK boomer" too, but as more data comes in there is a serious concern that the many Gen Z may end up being welfare adults with serious mental handicaps.
My granddaughter is now 19years old and working to be the best in her field. You cannot paint a brush for all Millennials as dumb. After all-how come there are millions of people in Poverty-when we live in the land of the FREE? The Millennials are investigating how this country got this way and the world. They are listening to KING YAHWEH BEN YAHWEH on RU-vid where their parents and many others refused. It is a terrible thing that is happening in this world and it is called reprobate minds. The Millennials are great people to exercise prudence and want to change their lifestyle from wickedness to Righteousness.
Well hopefully she breaks through the stereotype and rises above the stupidity of fellow Gen Z'ers. And I pray that she wasn't one of the one's partying during spring break in the throws of the covid-19 pandemic.
@Boston 508617 and dont forget your generation will be the one who will make us into who we will be so if you mess up we will be the next silent generation
The problem is language. The Whorf Sapir Hypothesis: language directs thought. If language, or rhetoric if you will, is bad, then thought will be bad. Intelligence is not at issue. It's language. I saw phonetics and language demolished by the teaching establishment in the late 1960s and 70s, and that is not a genie that can be put back in the bottle. We are now in an age of barbarism.
Thank you for your perspective. I've found it most useful. When you reference the 60s and 70s, are you referencing the switch from phonics to sight words?
Dats cos Ahs be a yung peepl reel smaht an a fansee handol lahk zmo 1n'Done an a piktuh 2 make me luk tuf. Ahs alredi wastid mah time an ah dont want nobodi be smartah dan me. Ah be U be day be Ah'm jus a wanna be. ovah an out.
