The Kids Are Not All Write
Posted on June 26th, 2013 in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
BusinessInsider reports on more bad news for the humanities and our children’s ability to read, write and speak clearly.
Parents don’t read to their children as much, K-12 humanities teachers are not as well-trained as STEM ones, federal funding for international education is down 41% over four years, and many college students graduate without being able to write clearly.….
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6/27/2013 9:20 am
Perhaps Ben Brantley really sums it up with the review in today’s NYT…
http://theater.nytimes.com/2013/06/27/theater/reviews/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory-opens-at-drury-lane.html?hpw
6/27/2013 10:25 am
Whether in education or entertainment, it seems the world is catering to the younger generation’s need to be taken care of (at cost and profit) rather than reared and formed. Particularly liked the following:
“But they remain appropriately obnoxious emblems of the kind of children’s attitudes Dahl most despised, including the feeling of entitlement — that the world was created solely for their entertainment. For all their sound and fury, they’re essentially passive creatures, who expect every wish to be acted upon by obliging grown-ups.”