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Ignoring You is Not a Cognitive Defect

So a bunch of high school teachers are upset that their students are bored with them. Well, that's not how they say it. Instead, the New York Times has the backs of boring, stupid teachers everywhere: "Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction." If kids didn't have iPhones, they would pay attention in school. Really? What's the last book you've read. How often do you - a big, bad, enlightened adult - sit down without the television or radio on? How often do you seek the lengthy solitude of reflection and reading? Can you even sit in silence for an hour? Adults rarely read, and that's fine. Adults spend most of our time in a distraction from our impending death. Or is there another justification for TV? When you start claiming to have the moral high road when you're doing the same things as your kids, there's a problem...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on November 23, 2010 (boomark / email).