Kateri89 Posted April 27, 2013 Share Posted April 27, 2013 What do you think are the biggest contributing factors to the decline of the intellect of modern society? For instance, I think reality TV, texting and social media have made the culture as a whole even dumber than ever. I'm not a grammar nazi but it's sad to see how many kids (and adults) struggle to properly spell and punctuate. I'll also include calculators. I'm not denying that they're very useful but so many people can't even do simple math anymore because they're so programmed to just plug it into a calculator. Thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriela Posted April 27, 2013 Share Posted April 27, 2013 Public schools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted April 27, 2013 Share Posted April 27, 2013 google Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luigi Posted April 27, 2013 Share Posted April 27, 2013 Television. Not just reality shows - all of television. Even the supposedly educational channels have commercials, and the object of commercials is to turn people stupid (enough to buy whatever the advertisers are selling). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhuturePriest Posted April 27, 2013 Share Posted April 27, 2013 The Simpsons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriela Posted April 27, 2013 Share Posted April 27, 2013 The annihilation of the public sphere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrestia Posted April 27, 2013 Share Posted April 27, 2013 I blame lazy parents who make excuses for their kids rather than holding them accountable for their actions. These crazy parents blame teachers when their kids fail a class! Thanks to G.W.Bush's No-Child-Left-Behind policy, many teachers are pressured into handing out passing grades. I went to public school, watched plenty of TV, including The Simpsons, but my parents set high standards for me and made sure that I did my work. They never asked if I wanted to go to college, they asked which scholarship I was applying for. They made me take piano lessons. They knew all of my friends and my friends' parents. They knew my teachers and my guidance counselors. They made sure that I was more afraid of them than of my peers. My parents never tried to be my friend, they disciplined me. My mom dragged me to church when I didn't feel like going. They sacrificed their own desires to give me a better life and reminded of that fact whenever I started to act like and entitled brat. They instilled in me a sense of responsibility. My parents did that while I watched a ton of TV and went to public school. Best parents ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihil Obstat Posted April 27, 2013 Share Posted April 27, 2013 I will just leave here these two links to my favourite linguistic blog: Shattering the illusions of texting Texting and language skills Basically, texting is not associated with stunted language skills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spem in alium Posted April 27, 2013 Share Posted April 27, 2013 TV, for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriela Posted April 27, 2013 Share Posted April 27, 2013 Consumerism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dUSt Posted April 27, 2013 Share Posted April 27, 2013 NKOTB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhuturePriest Posted April 27, 2013 Share Posted April 27, 2013 The days Dust and Jason were born. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arfink Posted April 27, 2013 Share Posted April 27, 2013 Hrm, a dumb culture... Children are no longer taught to be creative. Such things are continually suppressed in the schools as impractical. And yet, the urge to participate in the divine act of creating is the primary motivation behind things like life-long learning and thus intelligence. Instead they are told that, if they must make anything at all, it must be for the purpose of making money and being successful, and this short-circuits the love of learning by making knowledge a means instead of an end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anastasia13 Posted April 27, 2013 Share Posted April 27, 2013 The removal of the arts and creative work from curriculum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norseman82 Posted April 27, 2013 Share Posted April 27, 2013 Spell check GPS Lack of a functioning catechism for close to 25 years Shortage of nuns who can wield rulers like kali sticks teaching in Catholic schools Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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