Reply #77: I'm coming to realize that [View All]

[BlackVelvet04]

part of the problem is really our perception. Most of the kids today are so advanced in their understanding of technology that it's mind boggling. No, they don't know who was president during the civil war and they use calculators to add and subtract but yet they can sit down with a vcr, dvd recorder, cell phone, computer, etc and do things that seems to be beyond many of us.

It's true that many of the kids are dumber than dirt by our standards but maybe not so dumb as far as the new standards of life in this country.

I have an 18 year old nephew who just started college. By the time he reached college he had 6 years of Latin (3 at college level, 2 years of French, he took college level math and science classes far beyond what most of us were exposed to. He's studying micro-biology and wants to use that to develop and build better prosthesis.