About this title: A startling examination of the intellectual life of young adults, "The Dumbest Generation" reveals the disturbing, and ultimately, incontrovertible truth: cyberculture is producing a nation of know-nothings.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Tarcher
Date Published: 2008-05-15
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Tarcher
Date Published: 2008-05-15
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Tarcher
Date Published: 2009-05-14
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Tarcher
Date Published: 2008-05-15
ISBN-13:9781585426393ISBN:1585426393
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"Good book on how all the technology today has helped young people stay focused on their own insular worlds, where texting each other and constant contact has taken them even further than previous generations from intellectual pursuits. The first chapter or two quoted a few too many studies and statistics (that's what appendices are for), but it is a worthwhile read nonetheless. He argues that adults are in large part to blame by not fighting hard enough against 'youth ignorance and apathy' and being too concerned about appearing like old fuddy duddies. The most provocative idea he left me with was Columbia Univ. professor John Erskine's belief that there is both a private, and public, value to a liberal arts education, as he said it......"the moral obligation to be intelligent"."
"Bauerlein makes some good points, particularly in chapters four and five, but the rest is high on poorly contextualized statistics and/or hypocritically idealized depictions of past youth and intellectual movements.
He is much more effective at getting his thesis across--that our recent deluge of self-oriented technology is isolating the millennial generation from both adult influence and the greater Western cultural heritage--when he's honestly examining this very complicated issue, not when he's making strident comments about kids (and teachers, and scholars, and ....) these days."
"This book really looked so promising when I read a section while waiting at the local bookstore. And there is some great insight and data here, but this is not the book it should be. There are a lot of statistics, which is good, but the author does not do a great job explaining the data. The writing is very dry (I was falling asleep every 2 pages in the second half). Sometimes the author presented the data about the brilliance of the current up-and-coming generation and I would get confused about what he was really presenting. The last chapter really lost me; much about the lack of civic responsibility of the under-30 demographic in America.
I would like to see someone dwell more on the basic subtitle of the book. I have always thought of most digital devices (yes, computers!) as tools or appliances, not as an end in themselves. The one good point I recall was the idea that many adults have decided that the children are actually smarter than their elders and are letting them more or less run our education system. All in all, and interesting book whose subject matter could be better presented."
"Yeah. My students are ignorant. They think Wikianything is a reliable intellectual source. And they reproduce themselves as equally ignorant adults. But you know what? This was true long before the Internet allowed them to find creative ways of goofing off in class with laptops. Americans are ignorant and proud of it. Richard Hofstadter documented the phenomenon in his book on anti-intellectualism in America. It's the culture, of which the Internet is a part. And only partly a cause. Entertaining rant. But that's all."
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