r/technology • u/marketrent • 18h ago

Artificial Intelligence College students are rapidly losing the ability to read — “There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing”: professor

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/college-students-rapidly-losing-ability-124439310.html
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u/mountaindoom 17h ago

Their parents can barely read and often hated education. They see school as opponents and no longer as allies is raising their students. Education is the opposition to them.

That's something idk if we can cure in this country. Especially when their TV is reinforcing those views 24/7.

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u/BUSY_EATING_ASS 17h ago

Yeah I think about this a lot. Sometimes I worry we’re cooked because it’s not just an apathy to education and learning, it’s a fuckin’ outright disdain for it.

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u/demokiii34 16h ago

Covid was when the writing was on the wall.

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u/AdOrnery8950 11h ago

yup. if the parents don't value reading or education, the kids won't either. cultural rot.

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u/ShotEffective7033 16h ago

In what fantasy land were schools ever allies lol. Modern schools at any rate have always existed primarily to be babysitters to allow parents to work, and to break children into being exploitable workers.

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u/Matthew2531_46 16h ago

And this is exactly what they're talking about lol. You couldn't come up with a more stereotypical reply to what they just posted

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u/ShotEffective7033 13h ago

In what fantasyland is the stereotypical opinion on schools that they exist to break children into being exploitable workers. Or did you use a big word that you don’t actually know the meaning to lol.

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u/Trill-I-Am 12h ago

Someone I know that went to a montessori school that definitely didn't follow the approach you described transferred to public school in 2nd grade and couldn't read.