Response to "Understanding Citizenship..." and "The Dumbest Generation..."

I agree with Diane Cameron, who says that the average graduate sees going to schol as just an investment into the future, but not as an insight into the knowledge that can be gained. I agree that this message is often a whisper in a world that demands success for comfortable survival.

It is sad that our generation might be considered the dumbest generation because we may be smart at how to think, but not in our factual knowledge. "Since the tests measure not knowledge but pure thinking capacity...then...ignorance of facts...reflects not dumbness but choice." This sounds like the tests might need to be reformed to show how much we know about history. Yes, I believe those who don't know about history are doomed to repeat it. I think that this generation is more able to bypass the actual information, being so smart as to not learn it but get full credit in classrooms by mindnumbing worksheets and other boring ways of retaining knowledge. As the generation's mind needs a greater stimulus, a more proactive approach to learning must be enacted.