2008 July 25 « Una Voce

Reason.TV – Mark Bauerlein – Young Americans Are the Dumbest Generation

July 25, 2008 Varna Comments off

Check out Reason.tv’s latest interview with Mark Bauerlein discussing his latest book the ‘The Dumbest Generation’.

From the YouTube Description

Mark Bauerlein argues that “the digital age stupefies young Americans and jeopardizes our future” by turning out hyper-networked kids who can track each other’s every move with ease but are largely ignorant of history, economics, culture, and other subjects he believes are prerequisites for meaningful civic participation.

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Hmmm….

“Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking”

-- Johann Wolfgang Goethe

“Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.”

-- Benjamin Lee Whorf

"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."

-- Carl G. Jung

"It all matters: everything you see, hear, watch, say, and think. Therefore, be the gate-keeper of your mind and choose carefully what goes in."

-- Maurice Lavigne

"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."

-- Rene Descartes

"Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable."

-- Francis Bacon

"The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good."

-- Bertrand Russell

"The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others."

-- Tyron Edwards