U Kan Reed?

This article makes many of the same arguments (apparently - I haven't read it!) as The Age of American Unreason, by Susan Jacoby. I'm still working through that book, which traces the origins and history of our current disinterest and distrust of learning.

This new book talks about how we're ignoring the lack of intellectual activity going on in the generation coming up. I'm wondering if their ability to manipulate digital and visual media might not reveal some skills that we haven't thought of yet; however, I don't think that anything good can come of the lack of reading and writing.

Can U Read Kant? - WSJ.com: "To Mark Bauerlein, a professor of English at Emory University, the present is a good time to be young only if you don't mind a tendency toward empty-headedness. In 'The Dumbest Generation,' he argues that cultural and technological forces, far from opening up an exciting new world of learning and thinking, have conspired to create a level of public ignorance so high as to threaten our democracy."