American kids, dumber than dirt

[Ikutiera]

Warning: The next generation might just be the biggest pile of idiots in U.S. history

I have this ongoing discussion with a longtime reader who also just so happens to be a longtime Oakland high school teacher, a wonderful guy who's seen generations of teens come and generations go and who has a delightful poetic sensibility and quirky outlook on his life and his family and his beloved teaching career.
And he often writes to me in response to something I might've written about the youth of today, anything where I comment on the various nefarious factors shaping their minds and their perspectives and whether or not, say, EMFs and junk food and cell phones are melting their brains and what can be done and just how bad it might all be.
His response: It is not bad at all. It's absolutely horrifying.

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[Aptrgangr]

I wish there were any signs European kids were better in any way. I say the situation here is even worse, because the European schools and education levels, as well as manners and behaviour, principally always were on a higher level compared to the USA.

[Marcus Marulus]

John Taylor Gatto is the most out-spoken critic of the modern-day school system of America. His has expanded his criticism to the very concept of compulsory schooling as such, claiming that it's main goal is to created dumbed-down slaves of the modern consumerist corporate system. He is highly controversial, maybe too radical. He has written already a few books on tha subject.

John Taylor Gatto - Challenging the Myths of Modern Schooling

[Marcus Marulus]

Originally Posted by Aptrgangr

I wish there were any signs European kids were better in any way. I say the situation here is even worse, because the European schools and education levels, as well as manners and behaviour, principally always were on a higher level compared to the USA.

Yes, for the reason you mentioned there is a high probability of highly "intellectualized" stupidity developing in Europe, with people formally very educated (with diplomas and other stuff) and possibly formally with high IQs, but nevertheless narrow-minded (ideologically) brain-washed and indoctrinated dumbasses believing, without any reserve, to the modern system as the best of all possible worlds.

In one word: "modern Westerners". (I explained in another thread what I mean by that)

[Strengthandhonour]

From what I know, the American education system works in a way to allow the ones at the bottom to slip further into the bottom and for the ones with a brain to get higher to the top. This doesn't work very well I think. There is more people at the bottom than the top..