I don’t believe what Mark Bauerlein is saying is truthful. I believe that our generation almost needs to be smart. In todays society everyone feels the pressure to go to college just so they can be successful and have a good paying job. Obviously, we have to have motivation to make it through college. The fact that he stated about us only spending an hour studying can not possibly be true. Every free second I get is spent doing something for one of my classes. College is very hard and a lot of work is required. Along with school, we have jobs and the two put together is very time consuming. The economy today doesn’t really allow for our parents to just give us all the money we want or need. So, we have to work and earn money for ourselves. I don’t see how this can be considered to be lazy?
Our quiz in class proved something that I believe. We didn’t know all the part two questions but knew everything on part one. But, if I asked my grandma the questions she wouldn’t know any of the ones from part one. This just shows that we know information from the time period we are raised in. American idol and Jersey Shore are what our time period is about. Whats the big deal if we know all this info? In the article we read, “The Dumbest Generation? Don’t Be Dumb.”, there is a fact that says IQ scores have been raising since the 1930’s. This proves that we aren’t the dumbest generation. Basically, information changes and new things become more important and other things die out. We retain and care about the information we need to know to advance in our own generation. Generations are always changing and changing. Every generation thinks the one after them is dumb and the cycle just continues on and on.
The assumptions that Bauerlein made, I believe, is based off extremes. I think he just based this off the laziest people in our generation and said, “Oh you all are this, that and everything else.” But really, its not everyone. I think we all have goals and dreams that we work hard to reach.
I loved this blog! I think it is so important, yet so hard, for people to realize that change is impossible to escape. Information doesn't become less important, but the relevancy changes according to what is happening in current news.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree that our generation needs to be smart. But we don't just have to be book smart, our generation has to be both book smart and street smart. We need to know how to multitask to fit sports, jobs and school into our lives. Technology helps us out immensely, but I would say that people our age are ignorant about the technology at our fingertips. we think everything is so easy because of technology, and that's the problem. What happens when technology fails? The generation before us will dominate our generation.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with this post! It is hard being in college and having to study, do homework, go to work and whatever else we are involved in. I feel as if our parents did not have this much work in college, so the older generation is trying to say we are "dumb" because we are given more information to retain. We are the latest generation and are changing constantly, so like you said new information if becoming more important to us.
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