Reply #1: Those kids in 1905 were rocket scientists, comparatively.

[MADem]

This shit makes me DESPAIR:

..."The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30)," the Emory University professor of English offers the usual indicators, grand and slight. From evidence such as a decline in adult literacy (40 percent of high-school grads had it in 1992; only 31 percent did in 2003) and a rise in geographic cluelessness (47 percent of the grads in 1950 could name the largest lake in North America, compared with 38 percent in 2002), for instance, Bauerlein concludes that "no cohort in human history has opened such a fissure between its material conditions and its intellectual attainments."


It's all very well and good for IQs to supposedly be going up, but wars start because people don't KNOW this shit. It's the fault of the schools for failing to teach these kids, certainly. And now, we have a new generation of "moron teachers" who need to go back to school so they can teach the next generations.

It sure as hell explains some of the viewpoints and responses I've seen online, though.