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To: RoosterRedux
I drive a manual transmission truck and have had several kids look at the 5 speed in the floor and the clutch in disbelief..... I wonder about the kids of today who are increasingly dumbed down by technology

Ask someone under thirty years old to read a map...

There are lots of young people who if you asked them directions how to get to their job via street names and such, they could not tell you even though they drive it everyday...

They just follow their GPS...

12 posted on 09/13/2014 6:06:35 AM PDT by Popman (Jesus Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: Popman
They just follow their GPS...

Just wait until they follow their GPS into a dangerous neighbor filled with Trayvons.

There's a Darwin Award awaiting them.

18 posted on 09/13/2014 6:18:53 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Popman
re: directions

This problem began even in the 1980s. I'd ask HS students to draw a map of the route from the school to their house. The majority of students couldn't do that, in a rural town where it was a few miles in a bus or car. Map skills and awareness of surroundings were on the decline even back then. Now, with GPS, they're becoming nonexistent.

Losing the intellectual process of being able to define and determine ones path through ones environment is disturbing.

24 posted on 09/13/2014 6:25:33 AM PDT by grania
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