I google, a bit
Click here: The New York Review of Books: Books @ Google
There's a lot there, and it fills a great need for knowledge at your finger-tips.
Some of the young people I run into these days are so erudite it is scary. I was at a friend's house for Sabbath dinner the other night. His twelve-year-old son was awe-inspiring, breath-taking, and even athletic. .
How can we seniors, oft-times auto-didacts in one way of the other, cope with such intellectual power?
Just remind yourself that knowledge is knowledge but it ain't wisdom. That comes with age.
I hope.
Ben
There's a lot there, and it fills a great need for knowledge at your finger-tips.
Some of the young people I run into these days are so erudite it is scary. I was at a friend's house for Sabbath dinner the other night. His twelve-year-old son was awe-inspiring, breath-taking, and even athletic. .
How can we seniors, oft-times auto-didacts in one way of the other, cope with such intellectual power?
Just remind yourself that knowledge is knowledge but it ain't wisdom. That comes with age.
I hope.
Ben
posted by Ben Wattenberg at 8:12 PM
1 Comments:
Some of the young people I run into these days are so erudite it is scary.
Your anecdote notwithstanding...
Actually, on average I think exactly the opposite is true: the general ignorance, even stupidity, of many young people, who are more often than not fully enthralled with lowbrow popular culture to the extent that they cannot answer even extremely simple questions about current events or political figures, is "scary". Working with graduates from universities, some of them among the more prestigious, shows that often they do not seem to think analytically, and have trouble organizing their thoughts well enough to write a convincing paragraph.
But they know how to play video games.
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