Or is there just more to know?
2006-10-24 21:41:01 · 12 answers · asked by johninmelb 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I completely think people are getting dumber as a whole. I swear most days i feel like I am surrounded by idiots!
Good question :)
2006-10-24 21:44:53 · answer #1 · answered by samantha 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I do believe the newer generations comming into the post secondary education system are suffering from an intellectual gap.
it seems there is a far greater disparity between the well informed and misinformed people about to enter the workforce.
why? maybe it is political correctness, robbing the students of the chance to form an opinion. if the dont form an opinion(even a wrong one) they cant follow up on it and learn about the history or the situation at hand. instead they are fed a politically correct dogma that leaves them unchallenged in their day to day thoughts.
there is probably more to this situation than just political correctness, but that is all subjective. we need to end up teaching the students to form their own opions and follow what they think is right, not just present the info and let them go home with their ipod then watch the latest survivor...
2006-10-24 22:44:06 · answer #2 · answered by JCCamel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
MAybe ur just getting more knowledgeable and everyone else is just staying the same and just not learning anything, or maybe they dont feel teh need to show their knowledge or want to appear dumber than they are so that they can be......i dunno,,,,,,funny and someone to laugh at and like the attention
2006-10-24 23:21:30 · answer #3 · answered by q&a99 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it depends how you look at things.. For one, what I think is quite stupid is a parent putting their child in to a car at the road side of the car and not the pavement side. The door is wide open to oncomming traffic.. No thinking there. On the other hand, Humans have been to space, made some pretty cool stuff and life times are meant to be a little easier than years ago.
There is alot more to know though these days. This seems to be expected of us.
2006-10-24 22:39:22 · answer #4 · answered by Bastet 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it works both ways i think. There is a greater availability of information on the internet for example and this can inform and educate people. However, the quality of the information is not always good.
We are used to a visual form of communication such as tv to tell us how to think very often, rather than work things out for ourselves. We are spoon fed so to speak. So in this case we have less of a need for reading and writing and working maths and logic out, so we are not always using our brains to full potential.
2006-10-24 21:49:48 · answer #5 · answered by brainlady 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I blame liberal education that teaches children its alright if you can't spell correctly. Its okay if you have no grasp of grammar. And its no big deal if you can only do maths using your fingers, toes and electronic calculator. That, and pointless soap operas portraying trashy moronic lives on telly.
2006-10-24 21:46:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes and lazier too. The electronics age has caused many not to have to think for themselves.
Plus there are many that have a "sheep" mentality.
2006-10-24 22:49:37 · answer #7 · answered by Ker Plunk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everytime I learn something new it pushes some old stuff out of my brain!
2006-10-24 21:50:28 · answer #8 · answered by theredalbino 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, you learn something new everyday. We are always absorbing information.
2006-10-24 22:37:32 · answer #9 · answered by *JC* 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
knowledge is becoming specific...as you have information at your finger tips....no need to remember it, you can just look it up on the net.
2006-10-24 21:46:13 · answer #10 · answered by Quintus T 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋