| THE DUMBEST GENERATION How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes our Future Mark Bauerlein New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2008 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-1-58542-639-3 | ||||
| ISBN-10 1-58542-639-3 | 264pp. | HC | $24.95 | |
| Page 16: | "...and instead of producing a knowledgeable and querulous young mind, the youth culture of American society yields an adolescent consumer emmeshed in juvenile matters and secluded from adult realities." |
| Vocabulary: "querulous" does not mean "query-prone." S/B "curious". |
| Page 49: | "It [reading] costs less than cable television and video games, it doesn't require a membership fee (like the gym) and you can still read in places where cell friends are restricted and friends don't congregate." |
| Arguably S/B "(unlike the gym)". |
| Page 73: | "A world with only land lines impresses them as ridiculously inconvenient." |
| Missing word: S/B "land-line phones". |
| Page 80: | "...integrating each development into a new whole, a larger Gestalt." |
| Capitalization: S/B "gestalt". |
| Page 138: | "Nobody savors the process, but mature adults realize the benefits. Adolescents don't." |
| Word choice: S/B "appreciate". |
| Page 173: | "They must have liked it, and his disposal of artistic masters served their pedagogical point." |
| Word choice: S/B "dismissal". |
| Page 186: | "And maybe that works for the upper-crust students, those contending for a place at Yale or an internship on the Hill." |
| Too vague: S/B "on Capitol Hill". |
| Page 230: | "Nothing about Foucault or feminists or Critical Race Theory, or more distant influences from radical tradition." |
| This is not a sentence. I won't try to suggest a correction. |
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