Some schools in the United Kingdom are removing clocks from
their examination halls and test rooms, because so many teenagers cannot tell
the time, according to The Telegraph.
The young scholars are having a hard time telling
time?
Malcolm
Trobe, deputy general secretary at the Association of School and College
Leaders explained: “The current generation aren’t as good at reading the traditional
clock face as older generations. They are used to seeing a digital
representation of time on their phone, on their computer. Nearly everything
they’ve got is digital, so youngsters are just exposed to time being given
digitally everywhere.”
After
students complained that they were struggling to read the time correctly,
instructors decided to install digital devices instead of taking time to teach the
kids how to read a clock, the paper reported. Mr. Trobe told The Telegraph that
teachers are keen to create a test environment where everything is as “easy and
straightforward as possible,” noting that traditional clocks in examination
rooms could be causing students unnecessary stress.
“You
don’t want them to put their hand up to ask how much time is left,” he stated.
“There is actually a big advantage in using digital clocks in exam rooms
because it is much less easy to mistake a time on a digital clock when you are
working against time.”
Everything
traditional is under assault. Colleges are no longer teaching the classics,
rhetoric, debate or logic. As a result, young people are losing their ability
to reason and formulate arguments. Due to word processors and keyboards, many
kids have lost the ability to write, particularly in cursive. (Though they have
a dramatically expanded ability to curse).
The beautiful art of calligraphy has gone the way of the dinosaur and dodo bird.
Our youth spend so much time in front of televisions, computers, smart phones
and digital accessories, they have lost the ability to interpret or
extrapolate. Everything is spelled out for them, enumerated. They know only
what they see in front of them. Unlike reading, which engages the reader’s
mind, this screen-based “reality” tends to dumb them down.
In some
important ways, we are not evolving, but devolving.
Not everything leftists deem as “progressive” actually is, just as not all
change is progress.
In matters such as these, it’s about
time we turned back the clock.
Before it’s
too late.
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