Bauerlein again has succeeded in making many assumptions about our knowledge gained through technology. A few have mentioned how he states that it is our teachers and mentors fault that we hold higher learning at the priority that he assumes we do. The paragraph at the top of page 201 is ridiculous. One line he says is< “A teen world cranked up by technology a knowledge world cranked down by its abdicating mentors. I want to know what proof he has that our mentors are teaching or lack thereof teaching us what is important and preparing us for each higher step in education? In high school I still had to read books for my English classes, compose essays, keep journals, and do reading reports on outside reading. He later in that paragraph says that mentors condone our lack of learning by actually believing that we are smarter than we are. What he forgets is that it is true that most of our parents can't do half of what we do on the internet. Some parents may not have ever sent a text message. Of course they are going to be amazed at what we can do in no way do they credit our intelligence or not push us in academic areas. Another thing that bothered me was the whole paragraph on page 202 pretty much this whole four page rant is ridiculous! He is making nothing but assumptions on page 202. Some things he says are, "They leave school but peer fixations and social habits stay the same. They join the workforce only to realize that self-esteem lessons of home and class, as well as behaviors that made them popular, no longer apply." What! All of us are raised very differently in our homes and what is popular to one may not be popular to others. He then says something like it will take us years to adjust into adulthood. Again everybody is different some people adapt very well to new situations of course some don't but they could just have a underlying social issue maybe that doesn't mean they aren't educated to move forward. I have been seeing those "foundation for a better life" billboards popping up and I really like them. I wonder according to Bauerlein is this not our mentors trying to teach us? It seems to him if it isn't strictly academic then it isn't educational. So we can all just be really really smart and academically driven but have horrible values and morals? It seems he would be happy with that but then again I'm just assuming the way he does half the time about us! I found the "character" site with all the different billboards and what their mission is. I found it really cool check it out.

http://www.values.com/