Over the past few years I have started to notice that people are getting less and less informed on subjects that should be considered as general knowledge. My fellow students stare with baffled faces at our teacher as he tries to explain something with simple examples from relatively famous and well known examples from the past(for example: our history teacher tried to explain the concept of dictatorship and used Hitler as an example and some people have absolutely no clue that Hitler was a dictator. This arround the age of seventeen and eighteen is deeply sad), or everybody suddenly just forgot that you can change an equation by changing the same thing on both sides of the equation(Y-6=4X+2 is the same as Y = 4X + 8).
But these situations donât only occur at school, for example take a thread at random in of the communities and it wonât be long untill you find someone that states completely false and misinformed ideas. Others have to correct that person to prevent onlookers to get confused, but in the end the person who is corrected often doesnât even care as he is convinced that his is the correct explanation or answer and ignores an explanation given by someone who took the time to get their facts straight.
What could be the cause for this slow draining of knowledge? Please share your thoughts and feel free to illustrate them with examples from your own surrounding.
You know, the same thing that makes everyone think that everything was better in the past.
You can't deny it all the time. My dad always tells me that life in Yugoslavia was better than life in the Balkans at the moment. Which I strongly agree with, and it's not even because of nostalgia, but just studying about Tito and Yugoslavia and all that makes you want to live in that era. Anyways, back to topic.
As technology advances and phones and machines and whatnot become more intelligent, humanity degrades and becomes less intelligent. The simple fact that we can have all the knowledge in the world in our pockets is making us think less and less with our physical minds. Most people I've met these days seem to rely on technology for everything. Weather it be simple calculus or complicated algorithms, people stopped putting their brains into work. I think kids should have very strict limits to technology of any kind, because I fear for the future generations
You can't deny it all the time. My dad always tells me that life in Yugoslavia was better than life in the Balkans at the moment. Which I strongly agree with, and it's not even because of nostalgia, but just studying about Tito and Yugoslavia and all that makes you want to live in that era. Anyways, back to topic.
Yes, you can. It is easy to do. There is rarely a moment when it was actually better in the past, it is simply a fallacy. Of course your dad thought it was better in the past, he was younger in the past. When you are young, you can do more and feel better than when you are old. So logically, your dad felt better in that era. Similar thing for everything else really, when you first use something it is new and exiting, in good condition, and all that, so of course they think this website was better years ago. It was new to them back then.
As technology advances and phones and machines and whatnot become more intelligent, humanity degrades and becomes less intelligent. The simple fact that we can have all the knowledge in the world in our pockets is making us think less and less with our physical minds.
Physical minds? When did we get those?
Most people I've met these days seem to rely on technology for everything. Weather it be simple calculus or complicated algorithms, people stopped putting their brains into work. I think kids should have very strict limits to technology of any kind, because I fear for the future generations
Why so? It isn't making them any dumber, in fact the ability to use this makes them, if anything, more intelligent than the kids of the past.
You will not argue that technology is vital, right? It is used in everything from surgery to military missiles. So why don't you get a random teenager to fiddle with a computer, and see how well they can do. Now get an old man from past generations and see what happens. The teenager is probably much better with computers, which will help a lot in the future.
It's the use of Google. We never use this information in our daily lives and, when we do, we simply pull out our cell phones, iPods, etc. and "Google" it.
in fact the ability to use this makes them, if anything, more intelligent than the kids of the past.
it has absolutly nothing to do when intelligents. but whit education. when you grow older it gets harder to learn new things. so for old folk it's prety hard to learn this new technology. while the younger generations growed up whit these technologies and it almost go's automaticly for them.
the old guy probably has more general knowlets and knows more about other things then computers then the young guys do. as he has more experience and time know learn these things. by your view of intelligents, doesn't that make the old guy more "intelligent"
The fact that you argue about this proves the following point:
"The federal-funded Public school system has decreased the impractical cognitive development of the younger generations so much so that they do not understand why some private-schooled youngsters have a greater intelligence, even labeling such individuals with such derogatory labels as 'Nerd', 'rich brat', and 'loser'. Due to this inferiority complex, the majority of public-schooled youth of today hold those with greater or less intelligence in contempt, reminiscent of the behavior of chickens towards those that are different from themselves; Pecking the individual to death."
Point being, standardized education's benefits given, no child left behind also means no child leaps ahead. That answer any questions?
I've seen it a lot to be honest. I think that it has to do with technology to be honest. People start using shorthand text, for example, and then their spelling becomes bad over years. I actually use very little shorthand nowadays because I like being able to spell.
Also, grammar. There is a difference between "There is a difference" and "They're is a difference." It infuriates me when I see people doing that, and I don't even know why.
Then again, I live in the USA. I won't be surprised when international colleges start refusing to accept diplomas from US graduates.
People start using shorthand text, for example, and then their spelling becomes bad over years
I think it's more of they never learn to spell and so use short hand.
It infuriates me when I see people doing that, and I don't even know why.
Because it's so obviously wrong to anyone with a 6th grade education.
I won't be surprised when international colleges start refusing to accept diplomas from US graduates.
I wouldn't really be either. When the people in your class who are always failing the tests and have no idea what they're doing end up passing with a C-B because homework is so over-weighted and exams are worth at most 20% of the grade, who can't pass?
Now see, the economy was a lot better, and general lives of people were brighter, and also easier. College used to mean something. Today, it's all about connections here in the Balkans
Physical minds? When did we get those?
My English is at the level of a 5th graders, don't expect much from me. I mean we start thinking less with our actual brains, and rely heavily on technology. Hope that makes it clearer.
