Can Students Have Too Much Technology In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

(AGG)“‘Students who gain access to a home computer between the 5th and 8th grades tend to witness a persistent decline in reading and math scores,’ the economists wrote, adding that license to surf the Internet was also linked to lower grades in younger children”(Can Students Have Too Much Tech?). (BS-1) Technology is such an important aspect of Montag’s society’s lives that they are lacking the ability to connect to the world around them. (BS-2) Montag’s ‘wife’, Mildred is so sucked into technology that she is lacking many human characteristics. (BS-3) Clarisse is never on technology, so she is different, she connects with the people around her because she does not have the distractions of electronics. (TS) In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury,
They clearly do not value knowledge. Someone who is a great runner can win a lot, but they can’t create, they can not make anything important happen, they can not change someone’s life, they can not be someone’s best friend, they can not think up a new way to cure cancer, or to stop substance abuse. But they can win, and they can see a number on a piece of paper. And that is what the schools in their society are focused on. (STEWE-2) Clarisse McClellan is telling Montag about the schools,“‘An hour of TV class, an hour of basketball or baseball or running, another hour of transcription history or painting pictures, and more sports, but do you know, we never ask questions, or at least most don't; they just run the answers at you, bing, bing, bing, and us sitting there for four more hours of film-teacher. That's not social to me at all. It's a lot of funnels and a lot of water poured down the spout and out the bottom, and them telling us it's wine when it's not. They run us so ragged by the end of the day we can't do anything but go to bed or head for a Fun Park to bully people around, break window panes in the Window Smasher place or wreck cars in the Car Wrecker place with the big steel ball’”(Bradbury 27). The schools in Montag’s society clearly center education
They learn about technology. “‘That's why we've lowered the kindergarten age year after year until now we're almost snatching them from the cradle’”(Bradbury 57). Their education starts when you are a baby. They start to center the babies lives around technology as well. People get so sucked into technology because that is how they grow up. They become accustomed to the constant technology all around them that they can't imagine life without it. They can not even imagine the babies without technology. (SIP-B) In their society, everybody and everything is the same, nobody connects with the people around them due to their lack of uniqueness. (STEWE-1) Clarisse is telling Montag about her experiences while watching people around town,“‘People don't talk about anything.’ ‘Oh, they must!’ ‘No, not anything. They name a lot of cars or clothes or swimming-pools mostly and say how swell! But they all say the same things and nobody says anything different from anyone else’”(Bradbury 28). Everybody is the same. They are not unique from one another. They talk about materialistic things. They are not connecting to each other and telling people things about themselves.