Sunday, October 06, 2024
A Teacher's Lament
From a friend:
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I find my students by and large fairly pig ignorant even about their own culture and region. Scottish schoolchildren I gather have never heard of Sir Walter Scott (https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/sir-walter-scott-comeback-for-school-lessons-d5kmstrdp). Millions of brains, better otherwise employed, are being daily fried with trivia and tik-tok nonsense, creating a lobotomized generation of coofs and ninnies, likely to spawn an even viler brood. Damnosa quid …?I prompted this outburst when I sent my friend a link to Rose Horowitch, "The Elite College Students Who Can't Read Books," The Atlantic (November, 2024).
