The Dumbest GenerationPreface to the Paperback Edition
Introduction
One. Knowledge Deficits
Two. The New Bibliophobes
Three. Screen Time
Four. Online Learning and Non-Learning
Five. The Betrayal of the Mentors
Six. No More Culture Warriors
Bibliography
Index
Mark Bauerlein is a professor of English at Emory University and has worked as a director of Research and Analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts, where he oversaw studies about culture and American life. He lives with his family in Atlanta.
"If you're the parent of someone under 20 and read only one
non-fiction book this fall, make it this one. Bauerlein's simple
but jarring thesis is that technology and the digital culture it
has created are not broadening the horizon of the younger
generation; they are narrowing it to a self-absorbed social
universe that blocks out virtually everything else."
-Don Campbell, USA Today
"An urgent and pragmatic book on the very dark topic of the virtual
end of reading among the young."
-Harold Bloom
"Never have American students had it so easy, and never have they
achieved less. . . . Mr. Bauerlein delivers this bad news in a
surprisingly brisk and engaging fashion, blowing holes in a lot of
conventional educational wisdom."
-Charles McGrath, The New York Times
"It wouldn't be going too far to call this book the Why Johnny
Can't Read for the digital age."
-Booklist
"Throughout The Dumbest Generation, there are . . . keen insights
into how the new digital world really is changing the way young
people engage with information and the obstacles they face in
integrating any of it meaningfully. These are insights that
educators, parents, and other adults ignore at their peril."
-Lee Drutman, Los Angeles Times
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