So much for the Boomer bashing

[LisaM]

11. That's an excellent point, and kids are also losing critical thinking skills.

We have been pushing STEM at the expense of the liberal arts, equating educational value to potential salaries, and stripping away important subjects like civics for too long.

There is nothing wrong with looking things up on Google, but that is the beginning of real research, not the end.

Lately I have been reading articles that students -bright students - are showing up at college without the ability to read a whole book. They are used to excerpts and they can locate content, but there is no larger context. This is bleeding over to society at large.

I, too, am amazed at how the shadow of the Vietnam War and the Cold War have vanished out of the conversation. And, go to the history section at a book store, and it's dominated by WWII. WWI (which in my opinion is still going on) has vanished from historical memory and the global conflicts that led to Vietnam have likewise been dismissed. Jesus, we could teach a whole class on the Vietnam War based on contemporary song lyrics from the 1960s alone. But we don't.