Ok I'm back and better than ever. All that angst about jobs and being a failure as gone, drowned by alcohol and getting busy with work. I have been visiting lots of blogs too. There is some dreadful shit out there.
Ok...
so I'm one to talk... but there are some really narrow minded uneducated 'fuck wits' in the blog world. I kind of knew it but when you see the breadth of moronic bigotry!
So back to my world and the question for tonight.
Are children less intelligent now that they were when we or our parents went through school?
The simple answer is YES.
I work with them all day and the know bugger all.
Everyday I am astonished by the things they don't know. Countries, Mythology, who Adam and Eve are, what the New Testament is...!!!
Don't get me wrong there are somethings they know that I don't but how useful are they really, they know things that do not help them understand the world or interpret things around them. Yeh they can text, and msn but they have nothing of value to say. They cannot reflect on the experience they have and make sense of it or see how it fits into the wider world. They don't even know who the Italian Prime Minister is, or that the capital of Turkey use to be Istanbul, or that it was called Constantinople, Byzantium before it.
Ok so I am an old fart, but there is so much that these kids don't know, even simple things like 'British Bulldog'. It might not be a game that every nation plays but for Scottish kids it was a given.
Well what is the answer? Comments please.
Am I just getting old?
Is it a sign where a good night in is a packet of crisps and a glass of beer!
SF
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