Re: The Dumbest Generation?

Go watch me be a part of the "dumbest generation" in this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl3nP1F8q-Q

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[bazza2005]

When he claims dumbest education he does not necessarily mean performance in school.

Your quotes about education are unquoted and do not have back-up.

In adition the dumbest generation deals with obsession with celebrity and technological culture.

[carlstips]

Stupidest... "The guy in the book"...... It's comments like this that make your generation look "stupider" :)

[ForestSongUnLTD]

I helped my kids with their homework all through their school years and their cirriculum was ridiculously easy compared to mine little fella. Using non-existent words doesnt make you seem "intelligent".

[satyratron]

@carlstips at least he's trying.

[BeLiketheSquerrl]

"i really doubt that most adults could find iraq on a map" I was thinking the same thing. but then again, i live in america and i'm assuming you do too. in my experience the US public has proven to be significantly dumber than the rest of the industrialized world. I dont think its much of an "age issue" or a "generation issue", i think its more of a cultural thing, and right now america has the most embarrassing public on the globe.

[IHABC8]

Only me. who recently turned 30. Have been a great speller for many years. Americans are dumb, but some exceptions..like myself.

[madmoderatemuslima]

1. logically, it should make you question your assumption that we are better educated now than 50 years ago when you yourself admit that people you know do not seem to have much knowledge. 2. You claim more people are educated but again, you also claim so many are not knowledgeable. This also points to education accomplishing less and not more these days 3. It is easier to get into college now. 50 years ago, we did not have open enrollment policies.

[tmw196374044]

Are you seriously believing this? Standards are better now is bullshit.. Go to Facebook, NO ONE under 30 can spell.

[AngelSees]

The author was in no way slamming the ways in which we learn; he was using actual studies to determine whether our intelligence is suffering as a result. The truth is that although our generation has the greatest access to information @ lightning speed, we choose to use it for social networking & little else.

[AngelSees]

You'd have read about the alarming number of college graduates entering the workforce with subpar reading & writing skills, & the billions of dollars our country spends every year sending students to remedial classes in community colleges because they're not adequately prepared for college upon high school graduation.

[AngelSees]

FYI, the educational standards are NOT higher than they used to be - it's only the different methods of learning that have increased. if you'd actually read the book (which I wouldn't expect of someone your age), you'd have read that college-aged kids nowadays don't have the education that a high school student had in the 1950s.