The Dumbest Generation

In my opinion teens these days are not as full of knowledge as teens in previous generations. Most of us probably couldn’t tell you much about politics or world history. However, we have to be taught it in order to know it. I think the things we are taught are different than the things other generations of been taught. Things that seem like common knowledge to adults isn’t common knowledge to teens. Even if they did teach us, some information I don’t think we would learn. In Ortega’s article we read it said that students have to have a need to learn in order to learn something. I think that need has gone away in most kids. There are so many easier ways to find the information we need without having to learn anything. The internet is a big part of that. For an essay you have to do for a class you can simply type the question in on Google and you will have all you need to know without having to really learn it. This is how it is for most homework assignments. The internet really takes away our motivation, it takes away our need to learn, therefore we can’t learn. I still think that teachers don’t teach us certain thing that most adults find to be common knowledge. At the beginning of the article it talks a lot about ignorance. I think it’s because to some extent life has become too easy for us and teachers don’t try to teach us in the way Ortega y Gasset believes we should be taught. Children need to be taught how to learn.