What´s The Dumbest Generation?
The Dumbest Generation “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” - Maimonides. Over the past years, our world has been creating and inventing new ways to obtain information. The under thirty year generation has the most exposure to these new technological advances, but how come studies show that I.Q scores keep going down year by year? The under thirty generation is the dumbest generation because materials we are given are misused as a distraction instead of a learning device which shows how our minds are less developed than the older generations. Today many people might argue the point that “we are the dumbest generation” because we can handle all of these complex technological advances They don't see that it is preventing our brain from obtaining the information we need to have quality logic skills “The mental equipment of the young falls forty of their media, money, e-gadgets, and career plans. the 18 year old may have a Visa card, cell phone, myspace page, part-time job, playstation 2, and an admissions letter from the u., but ask this wired and on-the-go high school senior a few intellectual questions and
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In a cartoon by Roz Chast, called “Shelved”, it shows a boy on a laptop sitting in a room full of books. All the books look at him sad faces while they watch him type away at his computer. The author shows irony by having the boy ignore all of the books and just focus on his computer. The books have faces of jealousy, fear, and anger as they watch him. They don't stand a chance against the laptop that can do almost anything the boy wants it to do. But a book is something that you can take and read whenever you want. There are books on every possible thing you can think of and reading them challenges your brain and teaches you to look deeper into things rather than having information handed to you from a