I read the first two chapter of "The Dumbest Generation" and liked it better than I thought I would. It isn't exactly something I would pick up and read, but it entertained me. I found myself laughing because some of the things it said a typical 18 year old does, or questions they can't answer, applied to me.
Something that i found interesting was when he said on page 36, "Hence the middle class teenager may attend a decent high school and keep a B+ average, pack an iPod and a handheld, volunteer through his church, save for a car, and aim for college, and still may not know what the Soviet Union was or how to compute a percentage." I found this interesting because how is this technology's fault? If this teenager went to a decent high school, shouldn't the teachers have tought him/her that? And if that teachers did teach this student that, then it's the students fault for not paying attention, not technologys. A student should apply themselves correctly and not be tempted by distractions like texting, tweeting, or Facebook.
