I will admit that I assume that Asians are smarter than any other race. To this day I think that Asians are one of the smartest of minorities if not the smartest. I believe that the reason why Asians are the smartest of minorities is because they are raised to work hard in everything they do and their parents enforce them to try a lot harder in school then other minority parents. I haven’t met a lot of Asians Americans but the ones that I have met have all been smart and I can see how one person can set the example to others and we stereotype people so when we think one Asian is really smart then we right away think Asian Americans in general are a lot smarter.
Are We the Dumbest Generation? Adults often argue that the intellectual ability of today’s generations has taken a turn for the worst due to the amount of technology they are exposed to as they develop mature ideals. English professor Mark Bauerlein examines in his 2008 book the effects of digital media and how it has caused young people to be more connected and technologically savvy as a result of the wide range of modern inventions, but he also asserts that this has caused them to become less intelligent; therefore, he presents the modern ages as the Dumbest Generation. Young people have a tremendous amount of information available to them due to technology through social networks, the internet, and video games. Many respectable individuals discuss on whether to call the modern generation the “dumbest generation” (Bauerlein) or realizing that they might be participating in an intellectual revolution.
Dumber, I Think Not Are we really being called the dumbest generation? Just because we have made our lives easier does not mean that we are dumb. If anything it means that we are becoming smarter. At first glance adults might look at us as stupid or dumb because we have less factual knowledge stored in our brains. An example of this could include having to name the presidents in order from earliest to latest.
Even though Bill Gates found his american dream without a college degree, that doesn’t mean that having a college degree raises the chances of acquiring the american dream. A college degree makes getting a well paying job easier because it’s considered as evidence of someone’s capabilities to handle a job. Even if someone else is more capable it falls down to whether they can prove it. Bill Gates didn’t accomplish his goal alone. He had help from a college professor and there was no competition in the field he was entering, he was the first.
Digital Culture/Social Media Digital culture had been raised for the last twenty years and approximately ten years ago, it had become popular. However, it was not a huge impact on young adults’ life as today because it was expansive for most of the families. Everything had changed because of the fast upgrade of technology, thus most of young adults starting to have one of them. Therefore, some of the articles had said these technologies had turned young adults dumb because of the over-use and excessive depend. Also digital culture and social media had made they forgot about the reality and live in a virtual life.
The circle of people for whom it means something that matters is shrinking. I think the meaning is the same as always but that the societal values and therefore the perception of nerds has evolved and is less negative. Nerds were always people who were very smart and probably socially awkward and if a visual were part of it, usually they wore glasses. I think all of those still apply, but that there's a greater appreciation for nerds and for the sexiness of abnormally intelligent people I think in the "old" days. Kids or people these days got teased a lot, and I know they still do, but, I think there are many more people who are aware that the reason nerds got teased wasn't really their social ineptitude, which could in large measure be traced to them focusing on education rather than social stuff, but rather the fact that the other kids were uncomfortable with their
As Helen Keller says, “It is possible to know a flower, root and stem and all, and all the processes of growth, and yet to have no appreciation of the flower fresh in heaven’s dew” (108) This shows that even though students are informed of much relevant information in college, they do not have opportunities to experience the delight of nature. This is because Helen uses an example of how people can acquire such knowledge, but never actually get a chance to truly understand it. The lack of perspicacity in a university of learning is a major drawback, but she states that a lack of time also decreases the likeliness of college. When students attend college, professors give them vast amounts of homework and exams, which does not leave a student with much extra time. Keller, when discussing the disadvantages of college states “The one I felt and still feel most is lack of time.
(Ayers 87.8) Wealthy Kids Don’t Enlist The reason wealthy kids do not enlist is that they can afford to go to college and not have to worry about the military paying for it. “Researchers found that in March of 2005, military recruitment was short one-third of the quota” (Ayers 87.8). If wealthy teens and any other teens would join some branch of the military, it would make it so much easier for the recruiters to do their job. However, because only “25% of parents will recommend the military to their teens”, they do not enlist (Ayers 87.8). More Military Personnel Deserting The military has changed a lot over the years,
In education and psychology for example, it focuses largely on behaviorism of human development while recent theories have been integrating cognition into the process of development. Because these are only theories and can be flawed, they still can be a very valuable process for educators. Compared to other species of life, we as humans did not come with survival skills instinctively. Although we are the most intelligent of species on the Earth, we
People who go to college now pay to go there and if they fail a class they just wasted a lot of money. If the government paid for everyone’s education then no one would think they would have to work hard and they would think they would have to work hard and they would end up failing once they moved in to there career. The only people that deserve to go to college for free are people that earn a scholarship or those who apply for financial aide. These programs are there for the people that have the desire to go to college. Most people that think a higher education should be free are not very wealth but there are programs like financial aide to help them if they have the desire to get a higher education.