This article presents plausible argument that our school children are being systematically numbed to reality. I am thankful that my schooling including field trips, the reading of novels and Greek classics, and extracurricular activities rather than drugs and electronic media meant to calm and entertain restless students.
The teachers in today's babysitting institutions are real WIMPS compared to those in the days before drugs and electronics were made available to enable anyone to be a "teacher" despite their inability to actually teach.
Asia Times Online :: How America made its children crazy
The teachers in today's babysitting institutions are real WIMPS compared to those in the days before drugs and electronics were made available to enable anyone to be a "teacher" despite their inability to actually teach.
Asia Times Online :: How America made its children crazy
Now we know that computers don't help children learn and that drugs don't help them concentrate, because the establishment mandarins who sold us the computers and drugs have conceded failure. In the January 29 New York Times, [1] a prominent professor of child development shows that attention-deficit-disorder drugs only harm the three million children who take them. One out of 10 American children have been diagnosed with so-called Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and most of them have been medicated. [2]
Some months ago, the Times reported that test scores lagged in school districts that invested massively in digital education. [3] It does not seem to have occurred to the mandarins that computers cause attention deficit disorder.