The Dumbest Generation by Bauerlein Mark

Author:Bauerlein, Mark [Bauerlein, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Years of consumption of low rare-word media, then, have a dire intellectual effect. A low-reading, high-viewing childhood and adolescence prevent a person from handling relatively complicated texts, not just professional discourses but civic and cultural media such as the New York Review of Books and the National Review. The vocabulary is too exotic. A child who reads children’s books encounters 50 percent more rare words than a child who watches children’s shows—a massive discrepancy as the years pass. Indeed, by the time children enter kindergarten, the inequity can be large and permanent. Education researchers have found that children raised in print-heavy households and those raised in print-poor households can arrive at school with gaps in their word inventories of several thousand. Classroom life for low-end kids ends up an exercise in pain, like an overweight guy joining a marathon team and agonizing through the practice drills. It doesn’t work, and the gap only grows over time as failure leads to despair, and despair leads to estrangement from all academic toil. A solitary teacher can do little to change their fate.

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