…fifth-graders who, as an elementary school principal told Bauerlein, proceed as follows when they are assigned a research project: “go to Google, type keywords, download three relevant sites, cut and paste passages into a new document, add transitions of their own, print it up, and turn it in.”
– James Bowman in a review of the book ‘The Dumbest Generation‘
ARTICLE LINK: The New Atlantis » Is Stupid Making Us Google?
I haven’t read the new book that this article is a review of, but the review itself was worthy reading.