I know the first answers that will come to me after asking this question; so please use the second one ;). Are people just becoming less intelligent now? I was born in 1980, and most everyone my age, or younger just seems so dumb lately. 1. On the road. 2. At work, 3. I swear, I just went back to college again, and most of the tests are "take home tests", the teacher also seems to read the books for you in class. Today I almost got crashed into, like 5 times on the way home from school, after rush hour (I'm an experienced driver from being a courier driver for years, so it wasn't me). Any other thoughts on this?
2007-09-25 14:52:19 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
well acutally its sad to say but, yeah... becouse of phones and friends and other things that people do in order to bother them they are getting 'dumber by the day'
2007-09-25 14:58:03 · answer #1 · answered by Kitt 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of the worlds' religions teach that the world will end. It is believed that this trend in religion stems from the parallels drawn between a person's life and the planet: The phasing of an innocent childhood to a more self-aware adulthood and finally to death. So, too, the world must go from an idyllic stage to a tragic ending.
You might say this has nothing to do with your question, but I think it has a lot to do with what you're asking. As you are more acquainted with adulthood, you're romanticizing how things were when you were a child.
Every generation says something like what you're saying. Are people really getting worse? I don't think so and I don't think any one person can measure such changes objectively. There is cultural change certainly, but it takes longer to perceive such significant trends. How short a span of time can you even remember, at most about 23 years? How likely is it that it's changed that much? I think the answer is that you've changed and grown older, not that everyone around you has changed.
2007-09-25 22:03:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what intelligent really means.
Common sense to you might be intelligence, but to others it is different. You can not label someone as being stupid or less intelligent than you just because they have become more careless over time. But this is exactly what you have done.
Intelligence to me is the ability to think above and beyond the basic intellect that the world requires you to live in, so, for me to drive messed up, or prefer a take home test rather than an in class test, does not really constitute my true intelligence.
2007-09-25 22:36:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the blame lies squarely with current teaching methods .. when I was a child we learnt by rote .. now everything is from books, read aloud and then teachers' own philosphy inserted .. thus you have little chance of being correctly directed in your eductaion, but fear not, the libraries are free and here on questions you can get a variety of answers
2007-09-25 21:57:28 · answer #4 · answered by The old man 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The school standards have been lowered...passing in now D...it was a failure when I went to school...kids are pampered in school otherwise the parents complain...and we have a lot of gadgets to do the work we used to use or braings for...scary...it's gonna get worse...
2007-09-26 16:17:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anglcake 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The assumption seems to be that the whole country can operate on the intelligence level of its leader.
2007-09-25 21:57:03 · answer #6 · answered by javadic 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Were u an advertiser before as well? I loved the headline more than the question.
2007-09-25 21:59:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You, javadic are a perfect example of that.
2007-09-25 22:01:46 · answer #8 · answered by todaviacargado 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol?
2007-09-25 21:57:25 · answer #9 · answered by Giant_Feet 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋