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Things were better in the ole dayze eh. It's a syndrome. If you live to be 200 bless ya the present will look like gold simply because it will be in the past.
As to the OP I saw the headline and I thought Trump wuz talking about his dolittle presidency. He though a media guy named Jimmy had presented the fake news.
The raid by the then LT-Col James Dolittle and his gutsy men to include the USN was classic American everything which told the Japanese to bend over and kiss their arse good-bye in that war. The rest is history which fact should cheer you up.
Tangmo:
The times have changed and the educational priorities have shifted. This has altered the strengths and weaknesses of students over time. Over the 30 plus years I have been teaching, I have watched as students have changed dramatically over the three-decade span. In days gone by students had more common sense/streetwise, were better in touch with the natural world and could better articulate who they were and what they valued. Today's students are tech-savvy but can't repair their own bicycle or car if something minor goes wrong like a flat. Students of the past were better trained in linear thinking and reasoning by the time they graduated high school. Today's students are more adept at non-linear thinking and trying to teach them sequential reasoning and linear thinking is like trying to herd rabid cats! When you take the students of today on field trips into nature or to a museum they ignore what is on offer around them and focus on their wireless devices and social media. God forbid you take them somewhere too remote for reliable wireless connection because if you do (and I have) they meltdown, go into withdrawal and become listless, petulant, surly and rude to all around them. They are more prone to being physically unfit than the previous generations of kids and prefer the keyboard/touch-screen to the games field or wilderness trail. Today's students are far more socially savvy with their peers and have a wider but still superficial appreciation for events and causes of the day. They are very good at finding information and collating it (a euphemism for plagiarism) but weak in analysing it and synthesising understanding and conclusions from the data they can juggle so well. They have difficulty with fine-motor skills and trying to teach them laboratory skills like measuring masses or volumes of liquids or titration is far more challenging now. Today's students are far more attuned to the global mono-culture they are exposed to via the Internet but woefully unattuned to the local and national cultures in which they live their real biological lives.
So not better and not worse, just different.
Cheers.
Evilroddy.
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