Saturday, November 24, 2007

Kids Today Know So Much

Photon Courier has an interesting take on that topic. See the post entitled Thanksgiving and Temporal Bigotry.

4 comments:

  1. Anonymous7:07 PM

    Some of us grow out of the idea that we know more than previous generations. Others, I'm sure you know, do not.

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  2. We know different stuff.

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  3. Probably some shmuck got a hold of one of those charts that shows the doubling of human knowledge every X years which means quite clearly that a highly-educated person of one hundred years ago knew practically nothing since so little was known.

    Now the sum of human knowledge is so great that even a complete ignoramus must possesses simply fabulous amounts of knowledge.

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  4. Anonymous8:50 AM

    Agreed. We do know different stuff. But I wonder if anything were to happen, human created or otherwise, how many of us could take said "stuff" (myself included)and be able to, as I have heard it stated, "live off the grid". How much of our knowledge is truly practical.

    P.S. - Thanks for stopping by and for pointing out the error (as I hang my head in shame) in my Thanksgiving post. (please don't tell my students :) )

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