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Do you feel like technological advancement will hinder or hurt the future generations?

I feel like it will hurt the future more than it will help it.
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acpguy · C
It is definitely hurting at present and will get worse in the future. I just heard on the news England is dropping analog clocks in class rooms because the students cannot tell time with them and are unable to tell how much time they have left when taking tests. My wife teaches college classes and kids cannot do simple algebra with out their smart phones or laptops and these are students that will be working out in the field where they may not have reception or laptops and they have to do math that is even more complicated than simple algebra. Liberal run education systems are to blame as they give good grades just for trying and allow the kids to use their smart phones and laptops rather than actually do problems using formulas and showing their work. My wife and other teachers find that at least half the students cheat when taking tests. The college has a written policy that if they are caught cheating they will be expelled for the year, but that does not happen because parents are suing schools if little Johnny or Mary get "F's" or kicked out. The world is getting dumber and dumber. Thanks to liberals.
Xuan12 · 31-35, M
@acpguy Why doesn't the school teach them to read the clock? Mine did.
acpguy · C
@Xuan12 They are liberals and barely know how to read.
Xuan12 · 31-35, M
@acpguy Glad you're here for constructive conversation.
acpguy · C
@Xuan12 The best constructive advice is to make all schools tuition based and not run by city or state governments. No free education would make parents more pro active in their kids education as they would be paying for what they get. Also teachers would be paid better and there would be over time competition for better teachers improving the education systems. Right now most teachers are no better than the students that they pass even though their test scores and homework are not. My wife is a teacher and I know many others that will tell you that they are forced to pass kids that are not doing well simply because the kids know they will without putting effort into their own education. The other thing it might help with is lowering the number of kids born just to increase the welfare / subsidies parent and foster parents make. But liberals will not go for this as it would not be socialism.