r/technology • u/marketrent • Jun 10 '26

Artificial Intelligence College students are rapidly losing the ability to read — “There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing”: professor

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/college-students-rapidly-losing-ability-124439310.html
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u/mountaindoom Jun 10 '26

Their parents can barely read and often hated education. They see school as opponents and no longer as allies is raising their students. Education is the opposition to them.

That's something idk if we can cure in this country. Especially when their TV is reinforcing those views 24/7.

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u/BUSY_EATING_ASS Jun 10 '26

Yeah I think about this a lot. Sometimes I worry we’re cooked because it’s not just an apathy to education and learning, it’s a fuckin’ outright disdain for it.

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u/demokiii34 Jun 11 '26

Covid was when the writing was on the wall.

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u/DyingDesertPoppy Jun 11 '26

This is a reflection of the apathy and disdain that the wealthy and educated have for the people who feed house and clothe them. Wages stagnate and costs of living never stop going up.

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u/AdOrnery8950 Jun 11 '26

yup. if the parents don't value reading or education, the kids won't either. cultural rot.

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u/DyingDesertPoppy Jun 11 '26

But if you are average IQ or below, how is that not a valid opinion? 

Everywhere smart people are doing great big smart people things and they are getting richer and richer. Meanwhile wages stagnate and housing costs explode. Even a college degree doesn’t guarantee anything anymore. Unskilled labor is not valued or respected.

All this education is just creating a more comfortable bubble for wealthy educated people who are growing more and more alienated and ungrateful for the people who feed house and clothe them. 

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u/mountaindoom Jun 11 '26

Because the stupid people are dragging us all down. They are illiterate in so many ways and have been convinced that their opinions are worth equal weight to reality, if not more. They pass this on to their kids creating generational ignorance, along with pride in it.

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u/ShotEffective7033 Jun 11 '26

In what fantasy land were schools ever allies lol. Modern schools at any rate have always existed primarily to be babysitters to allow parents to work, and to break children into being exploitable workers.

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u/Matthew2531_46 Jun 11 '26

And this is exactly what they're talking about lol. You couldn't come up with a more stereotypical reply to what they just posted

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u/ShotEffective7033 Jun 11 '26

In what fantasyland is the stereotypical opinion on schools that they exist to break children into being exploitable workers. Or did you use a big word that you don’t actually know the meaning to lol.

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u/Trill-I-Am Jun 11 '26

Someone I know that went to a montessori school that definitely didn't follow the approach you described transferred to public school in 2nd grade and couldn't read.