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Googling Is for Old People. That’s a Problem for Google. (www.wsj.com)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

There's a big difference between "all kids are terrible today" and "some people have very successfully dismantled the education system, and it's impacting our youth to a point where we can't trust their levels of education can protect them against capitalism run amok."

To be clearer: failure to educate is squarely on adults not on children.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

where we can’t trust their levels of education can protect them against capitalism run amok

I've been dealing with more zoomer-and-younger kids and uh, it's less that we can't trust that their education level will protect them from the evils of capitalism, but more that we can't even trust that their levels of education are sufficient for them to be able to both read and write, nevermind more complicated things like determining the accuracy of factual data and be able to make a reasonable decision based on you know, critical thinking and analysis.

It's shockingly dire in a lot of places, and it's unlikely to improve, at least in the US, since nobody values education and nobody wants to fund education, and we just elected a pile of geriatric rich white people that think we don't need to do anything but add more Jesus.

And yeah, as adults we've absolutely failed the two most recent generations, and are going to epically, epically fuck up the next one too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

That's not what I see in your parent comment. "young people don't seem to give a damn" and "I'm nearly fully on team 'young people are dumb fucks and won't save us after all'"