The Dumbest Generation

The world we live in is continuously changing and developing, and as we move forward into this new generation, people are becoming more dependent on technology. Reading habits have changed and the systems for education are much more reliant on new forms of technology. This is reasoning to many as to why this generation is the dumbest. However, this is an illogical ideology because although this new generation is more technology dependent, these forms of technology can be used to the advantage of many students and are why this new generation is not the dumbest, but the most advanced. Mark Bauerlein says that those under 30 are the “dumbest generation” and that “you guys don’t know anything”. This claim is unreasonable because the newer generation is not any dumber than the last, but is set to different expectations.
An untrue statement that Bauerlein makes refers to those under 30 as “the dumbest generation”. Sharon Begley exclaims that “if dumb means lacking such
Students are expected to be more perspicacious, and to many, the idea of technology downgrades a person’s intellect because it makes an objective easier to accumulate. Mark Bauerlein refers to younger people and states that “the intellectual habits that complement them are slipping” (Source 1). This is untrue because although the younger generation is more technologically advanced, this is not a element that downgrades their intelligence. They can use this component to their own benefit as for example, when trying to find the definition of a word, or needing to find a formula, one could search it up online instead of searching through a book which can be exceedingly time consuming. Such constituents are a helpful benefit that does not bring down one’s intelligence or makes a person “dumber” but helps with making a project easier which in all leads to the same