This is the first generation to hold in their hand all of the knowledge in the entire world and use that device to chase imaginary Pokemon creatures. – Menderman.
The article is good, but I’m going to excerpt straight from the comment section.
-I’ve been in the same business for 30 years. When we’d look for employees, it used to be we’d find about 15, maybe 20, out of 100 that were worth an interview. Now it’d down to about 5 out of 100. It’s amazing how many people cannot communicate simple, let alone complex, information. And over the years. a full HALF of our “good” employees were home schooled. The recruits now are so bad, we look for home schooled people first.
-This lack of education started in the 70’s with the advent of the “Department of Education”. Grammar was declared boring and no longer relevant. Creativity was ‘everything”. Unfortunately, I don’t see how you can be creative if you can’t explain your ideas comprehensively. This has been a pet peeve of mine for decades and I’m glad it is being addressed at least by some people. It is too bad that we have a couple of generations now who don’t know one part of speech from another and can’t form a grammatically correct sentence.
-Sadly true. My peers and I were reading books in high school that are more complex than today’s college sophomores or juniors are capable of understanding.
I’ve been in higher ed since 1985 and have witnessed this steady and precipitous decline. There are many, many causes that contribute to it — the entertainment industry, a cultural aversion to reading, the decline of standards in K-12, the loss of rigor in all but the STEM disciplines (and even there math is starting to go haywire at the lower levels), the change in family life and expectations.
One thing this does mean is that the college student who really applies him or herself and reads the books will emerge as a leader. Something for the younger folk to think about.
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Who started this rumor that this generation was the most highly educated generation?
Having asses in the seats doesn’t mean there is education taking place.
ht/nm
What article?
With the rise of Political Correctness and Common (Communist) Core being shoved down the throats of kids to day by an arrogant progressive class who thinks it knows what’s best for everyone it is no f*cking wonder we have functional idiots being shit out by the school systems today!
So far this is the century where the Progressive goal is to teach more and more about less and less where upon graduation day they know absolutely everything about nothing at all!
Good luck on that job interview, Kent “Flounder” Dorfman!
When I was in school, education was geared to promoting excellence. Top students were identified, encouraged with special classes to challenge them and held up as role models.
Today education is geared to identifying the lowest performers and rewarding them with extra resources – including SSI payments to the parents.
You get more of what you reward – in this case ignorance.
READING is the key to a successful education.
ALL students from the second semester onward should have reading assignments EVERY night. To obtain a really fine education, a student needs to understand early the reading for school is NOT enough. Parents need to reinforce this value by reading at home, even if it’s just the daily newspaper. Library trips should be family excursions.
Growing up, I read everything I could get my hands on, including the same newspapers and magazines that my parents read. Once when I was looking for a kitten who’d wandered off our property, I found a treasure trove of 1920s children’s books that our neighbor had put out in the trash. I lugged those home and read them.
Reading was my childhood default activity. Today it’s electronic devices. It remained my default activity for the rest of my life (except for college years, when I double-majored in English and Latin and struggled with eyestrain).
Yup! Watching “Watter’s World” on FOX makes me feel brilliant
“most highly educated generation”
Oh, but they ARE highly educated. Social Justice, Offense-Taking, Protest Protocols, etc.
But seriously, the crap they are teaching – especially with Common Core – is criminal. Last year I had a project that 6th graders were to read an article with inaccurate ‘facts’ that we live in a democracy. Then they were asked questions about the article and write an essay. Only the students that regurgitated the false narrative could receive the highest score.
I hate Common Core and all the ‘educators’ that change history for their cause.
And I am deeply grateful to the Christian Brothers for what little knowledge I have, even though one ear is higher than the other from being picked up by it on a daily basis during my school years. I also became adept at avoiding and blocking punches.
Ah, those were great days, now that I think back on them.
And this is the first generation to hold in their hand all of the knowledge in the entire world and use that device to chase imaginary Pokemon creatures.
(and send nude selfies).
” Unfortunately, I don’t see how you can be creative if you can’t explain your ideas comprehensively. ”
That’s the music and film industry’s problem right there.
When you tell special snowflakes that they are special for doing nothing, they start to believe it about everything in their lives.
This is the result of Tenure.
Nobody should be free of the fear of losing your job.
Academia is just the most vociferous of the old Guilds that are corrupt cronyism personified.
Lazlo collects books.
This is the simple best invention mankind has ever produced.
Maybe it’s because we had had to do our searches for knowledge with adult-sounding things like “Encyclopedias” and the “Dewey Decimal System”. Look where we go now for knowledge: Places with toddler names like Google, Bing, Yahoo and DuckDuckGo. Might as well be the freaking Banana Split Show. la, la, la, lalala, la…pathetic.
Let see what 72 hrs without electricity does to these highly educated people.
Found something relevant reading Steven Crowder’s twitter feed.
Millennials Outraged Over Sitcom Mocking Millennial Outrage
http://louderwithcrowder.com/new-sitcom-mocks-millennials-and-millennials-need-a-safe-space/
The new show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIGqzXhqsqc&feature=youtu.be
Read, for heavens sake read as much as possible and turn off the damned idiot box and unplug as much as possible from all the other electronic devices. And teach kids to read and spell phonetically (as well as to write in cursive) and not the damned look/say bs which makes them feel stupid because they’ve been dumbed down to the lowest common denominator.
@Moe Tom: Um, the Christian Brothers you gained your knowledge from wouldn’t happen to be these Christian Brothers, would they?
http://www.christianbrothersbrandy.com/index2.html
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Vietvet. Oh yes, they helped later on in life. But I had a solid foundation. LOL
Just watch a few Mark Dice videos and that will say it all.
@Moe Tom:
Christian Brothers, eh?
Are you a PMA alum by any chance?