Deliberate Dumbing Down Of America: Attention Spans 25 Percent Less Than In 2000 (video and pictures)

by Monica Davis

Many people over 40 practice oldfartism. We long for the days when people used  their brains, and it was a lot harder to program the populace with electro devices and mind numbing/controlling infotainment.

We long for the days when people could do simple math in their heads, and not get confused on a cash registrrr when given the odd change.

These days the kids need computer devices to tell them where to crap. And it is ni accident that they do. Our sociedty is being enslaved by devices and social engineering. Our attention spans, our abilaity to think critically decrases with each generation..

 

 ”Let me get on my soapbox a minute. I despise how we allow our children to rely on electronic devices. (My son) uses a calculator to compute. He relies on a computer to spell. He depends on satellites to navigate – on and on and on. I relate it to the collective dumbing-down of our society. Don’t get me wrong; I am just as guilty. But, thankfully, at least I do know how to compute, spell and navigate without the guidance of some electronic device. For all the convenience such inventions have brought to our daily lives, the reliance on the same has lulled us into not thinking for ourselves.” MOREHERE

 

The United States consistently spends far more money per school age student than any other country in the world, something like $11,800 per child compared with $4,000-$5,000 in comparable countries. Excluding the huge sums spent on the 10 percent of children who go to private schools, the United States spends something like $8,000 of public money per child per year. Yet, in 2012, the United States was 27th on the list of world rankings for school educational achievement, well below Cuba, below even Mexico and Brazil. Social critics regularly blast American public schools as little more than mind-deadening factories designed to propel working class white students into brain-dead jobs and minority students straight into the arms of the prison-industrial complex. From the other side, public schools are excoriated as retirement parks for lazy unionized teachers to indulge their habit of force-feeding the innocent on Marxist propaganda. At the same time, US universities fairly consistently blitz world rankings, often taking seven of the top 10 positions in the world as well as swags of Nobel Prizes, even as their students face record levels of graduate unemployment, while burdened with record levels of student debt. If there is any one thing that can be said about US education, it is that it is totally contradictory. MOREHERE