UK: Dimming down: How the brainpower of today's 14-year-olds has slipped 'radically' in just one generation

Clearly, kids are dangerous to our country's future. Arrest them!

See no evil Hear no evil Speak no evil. In other words: just don't think at all.

That is the message of today's society, with toys that talk, foods that are already prepared, and the need to be safe being far more important than reaching out to your neighbor.

I was walking down a city street last week and heard a tremendous crash behind me just down the street. I was concerned and checked to see if help was needed. Noone else on that busy sidewalk even skipped a step, or paused a conversation. They just kept on walking. I was floored.
We are being brainwashed folks. Thinking is dangerous.

betcha they blow their study to smithoreens

I don't home school, friends do and those kids are super intelligent

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the public schools, flouridated water, gmo foods, BP-A leaching from plastic, TV, video games, aerial spraying, add it all together you get dumbing down.

The way the article comes to the conclusion "almost certainly due to the rise of TV and computer games and over-testing in schools" makes me skeptical. I'd put full blame on public UK education. The Wetsern world needs to get back to decentralized, state education instead of federal education. And once that step is taken, a few states should start experimenting with private education/vouchers/etc... See which system works best.

The "Cash Cab' always seems to find some pretty damn knowledgeable people just walking down the street.
I always wonder how many hours of intelligent people are on editing room floors to leave room for the random dummy.
Would'nt a belief that everyone but you is stupid keep people from attempting to change things; "they won't even understand"

Articles like this make me cringe. Every year or so a "new" report comes out sounding the alarm that people are getting dumber. They are always completely unscientific crap rags, written by people who are scared of technology.
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Excerpt from chapter 18 of Underground History of American Education:

"The only conceivable way to break out of this trap is to repudiate any further centralization of schooling in the form of national goals, national tests, national teaching licenses, school-to-work plans, and the rest of the utopian package which accompanies these. Schooling must be desystematized, the system must be put to death. Adam Smith has correctly instructed us for more than two centuries now that the wealth of nations is the product of freedom, not of tutelage. The connection between the corporate economy, national politics, and schooling is a disease of collectivism which must be broken if children are to become sovereign, creative adults, capable of lifting a free society to unimaginable heights. The rational manage- ment model has damaged the roots of a free society and the free market it claims to defend."

Excerpt from Epilogue of Underground History of American Education:

"What has happened in our schools was foreseen long ago by Jefferson. We have been recolonized silently in a second American Revolution. Time to take our script from this country’s revolutionary start, time to renew traditional hostility toward hierarchy and tutelage. We became a unique nation from the bottom up, that is the only way to rebuild a worthy concept of education."

Table of contents for the Underground History of American Education:
http://www.johntaylorgatt...

I see no evidence. I have taught students from 12 years to 20 and I have not seen anything like this. What I have seen is that kids are just as "smart" but know different things than we did when we were their age. I knew how to fix my bicycle.. they know how to fix a computer. Don't get too excited over these sorts of studies.

And doesn't employ 'global' education standards.

Yes, to Nigel and Elizabeth this pendulum test is all good and fine but what about for Jamal, Latisha, Rameshi or Mohamed?

Math could be taught in a much more coherent manner like the purchase of 'bling' or the sale of indigenous foods like Punjabi or Mujadarah.

When possible, all science should be taught to reflect the wisdom of the Koran and Buddha.

In time the future leaders of Europe, like America, will bring social and economic justice by redistributing the wealth and balancing out the power structures that have prevented the narrow-minded majority from experiencing the rich cultures of the world.