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1 posted on 03/25/2014 6:57:49 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
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Having Better Technology Does Not Make Us Smarter

Most assuredly. Even with the world at the fingertips of the low information voter, look at who they elect.

2 posted on 03/25/2014 7:17:03 AM PDT by corlorde (forWARD of the state)
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Duh.

Having a better tractor won’t make you a better farmer, either. Just faster on the row.

From what I’ve seen, Technology simply fills in the down times that people once used to learn a hobby or practice an instrument.


3 posted on 03/25/2014 7:18:48 AM PDT by Noamie
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Billionaire tech wizard Steve Jobs gave away less of his fortune than did Andrew Carnegie.

Gee, it was HIS money. HIS decision IMO. He gave away a lot in taxes btw.


4 posted on 03/25/2014 7:20:17 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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Requiring a freshman Latin course would be a cheaper and wiser investment in mastering language, composition and inductive reasoning than free electronics.

i love this, and i concur!

no kidding that "Having Better Technology Does Not Make Us Smarter!" our Founding Fathers were of the most brilliant thinkers... many of them were well-read in the classics, and some of them well-versed in the classical languages... even the least educated of them were more educated than most of our college graduates today...

as a homeschool mom who also works away from home, this is what i want for my sons... today when i get home from work, i will be reading The Aeneid with my boys, giving them a test in Latin... mathematics with my younger son... and then i will be reading Cicero's The Republic and The Laws and Virgil's The Divine Comedy with my older son, who does Advance Mathematics and Material Logic on his own/online...

tomorrow i will do vocabulary and history with my younger son, along with Latin and The Aeneid with both...

5 posted on 03/25/2014 7:23:45 AM PDT by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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Do you know your spouse’s or best friend’s cell number without looking it up?


6 posted on 03/25/2014 7:33:26 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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Well technology fails more often than we would like, but in this case Professors Ping and Doppler rose to the occasion.


9 posted on 03/25/2014 8:52:41 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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