Excerpt:
“Teenagers and young adults mingle in a society of abundance, intellectual as well as material… Never have opportunities for education, learning, political action, and cultural activity been greater. All the ingredients for making an informed and intelligent citizen are in place. But it hasn’t happened.”
So says Mark Baurlein, professor of English at Emory University and author of The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don’t Trust Anyone Under 30).
Just who is the dumbest generation, according to Baurlein?
So says Mark Baurlein, professor of English at Emory University and author of The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don’t Trust Anyone Under 30).
Just who is the dumbest generation, according to Baurlein?
Click to read the rest of "Generation why" (The Collegian Online).
Note: I find it somewhat ironic that the writer misspelled the book author's name.
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