There is a world of difference between the modern home environment of integrated electric information and the classroom. Today’s television child is attuned to up-to-the-minute “adult” news—inflation, rioting, war, taxes, crime, bathing beauties —and is bewildered when he enters the nineteenth-century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns, subjects, and schedules.
This part really stuck out to me because I feel like our education has evolved to the point where we are constantly learning but also constantly teaching. Our surroundings are technologically advanced with everyone having at least one major piece of tech in their pocket; cell phone, tablet, music player, etc. Instead of being attuned to “adult” news, we are generators and commentators in an endless timeline of news. All of us are categorized under “media”. In my opinion, some of us have become desensitized due to this; the presence of TOO much information to not only take in but also feed back out. We have a constant thirst for attention, whether we want to admit to it or not…
