The Dumbest Generation?

As much as I hate it, I have to agree with what was written in “The Dumbest Generation? Don’t Be Dumb”. Almost everything that the author explained was true, especially about the many simple things that we “should know”, but many of us known absolutely nothing about. While listening to a podcast on my iPod, I came across a pretty scary instance where this was going on. The podcast was an interview with a Medal of Honor recipient who served in the Second World War, and was a math teacher at a school, and the eighth grade history teacher invited him to give a talk about his experiences in war. He complied, but when he gave his talk, he was horrified with the student’s lack of knowledge of World War Two. He told the interviewer that none of the students could say who fought in World War Two, or even what side the United States fought on. Although many of us don’t know these facts, I must argue the people of our generation feel no connection to many of these facts, so we feel no need to know them. I also am in agreement with his statement about how the people of Generation Y feel no need to learn these facts, when we have the ability to look them up in a split second on Internet. Although he only writes about Gen. Y, you also have to look at our society as a whole. Ever since the invention of the wheel, people and societies have been relying more and more on the technologies that they invent, and many times that comes back to harm them.