Readin’ Ain’t What it Used to Be
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Kudos to cartoonists Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman for capturing the demise of reading better than a stack of volumes by contemporary professors and a heap of studies by the National Endowment for the Arts. [Click on the cartoon for a full size version of the Zits cartoon]
Unfortunately, the “experts” respond to this problem by recommending dousing the younger generation with Ritalin….
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Dirk W. Sabin
Comment on Monday 19th January 2009 @ 1:56 pm
Give the slackers this day, their daily snark. Not only is a kind of check the boxes brevity required, when the new illiterate actually do engage, it is generally to torch somebody with a snappy comment in order to “agritate” them so the Cliff notes Enforcement Brigade can then watch the
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Kids these days….did I say that? Where’s my fiber?
Jim
Comment on Monday 19th January 2009 @ 10:52 pm
Sad thing is that the “after” cartoon also illustrates how some writers these days compose their masterpieces.
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