The Dumbing Down of America


We all know that too many video games can be bad for kids. We worry about grades when not enough time is spent on studies (ignoring for the purposes of this post the negative impact on health as well). We even worry a bit about iPods - will the sound level be too high, will porn appear on the video iPods, will...?

So Apple added parental controls to the iPods, including a volume maximum setting. It turns out, though, that they didn't allow for the transmission of garbage in the guise of University Education. The flaws and shortcomings in this whole subject area are well known . Here is a brief piece by N.T. Wright, Anglican Bishop of Durham. Now I need to warn my children to not download any material from Stanford. Maybe Apple will add that to the next rev. of iTunes software.

Posted: Wednesday - May 30, 2007 at 01:17 PM          

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