Posted on 02/29/2016 10:43:02 AM PST by Academiadotorg
How do student protestors today differ from their predecessors back in the 1960s? The latter were more well-read.
"This is a post-literacy generation," Peter Wood of the National Association of Scholars (NAS) said recently at the Heritage Foundation. "They know how to read but don't read."
Charles Kesler, editor-in-chief of the Claremont Review of Books, notes that the so-called New Left of the 1960s actually would occasionally quote Abraham Lincoln and the Declaration of Independence, sources many current campus revolutionaries are unfamiliar with. "I don't want to romanticize the old New Left even though it looks admirable compared to the new New Left," Kesler said, while on the panel with Wood.
Kesler, a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College, has had plenty of experience with the New Left, past and present. Last Fall, in fact, there were protests at Claremont McKenna.
"One student said he didn’t like the protests but wouldn’t say anything about it," Kesler remembered. "I asked him why, he said, 'I'm a coward.'"
"I asked him what he was afraid of, he said, other students." He did not want to get mobbed on Facebook.
The architects of such a climate on campus are sort of obvious, by definition, but those who don’t share their philosophy should not rest easy because they are not culpable. Indeed, Wood notes that all of the above occurred, in part, due to "preemptive surrender and negligence on the part of conservatives."
Thus—————moronials.
I'm not sure if he's saying the glass is half empty, or half full.
A lot of my college students couldn’t read to the end of a 140 character tweet.
Its much easier to read 140-character tweets and burn books than read books.
You could always count on the hippies/commies protesting the government. But now they are the government.
"... And there was a time in this country, a long time ago, when reading wasn't just for fags and neither was writing. People wrote books and movies, movies that had stories so you cared whose ass it was and why it was farting, and I believe that time can come again!"
I remember sthe “old” New Left as some of the most ignorant people I’d ever met and the ones who stayed Left stayed ignorant. Not saying the current crop aren’t worse, but it’s a pretty low bar.
“This is a post-literacy generation,” Peter Wood of the National Association of Scholars (NAS) said recently at the Heritage Foundation. “They know how to read but don’t read.”
I just assumed most all protesters in the US are not well read.
“Not saying the current crop aren’t worse, but it’s a pretty low bar.”
http://imgur.com/gallery/CGPa3
Most can't read, courtesy of our education system and social promotions.
A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.
- Mark Twain
They figure they don’t need to read, so long as they snicker at the correct triggers.
I mentioned Calvin Coolidge to one millennial (and this is someone with a post graduate degree) and he reflexively giggled. But was nonplussed when I asked the reason. He couldn’t understand why I didn’t see the very mention of Coolidge as humor in and of itself.
that’s why they hate it when we appear on it.
It is not just the radical left that is ill educated, semi-illiterate and not capable of critical thinking. Form your own conclusions.
I heard a 40 year old idiot this morning on our local radio show spouting off for Bernie. He was clueless. Just kept saying, “he speaks for our generation”.
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