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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]School should be preparing kids for adult life.

In your adult life, work or otherwise, how often do you use a book?  I mean an actual bound book?  When you are ingesting information for work, are you able to do it even though it isn't presented in a bound format?

I would guess rarely.  And the world is increasingly not involving the printed page.  I suggest that our generation's sense of discomfort, is rooted in thinking that what we did something is the "right way" to do something.  I also suggest the studies on learning are influenced by the change in times.  Give it a decade.[/quote]

Children learn a lot more than adults, so adults aren't role models here.

Adults who read more substantive content are reading more books than adults who read more junk. [/quote]

To your first point: I think you are saying that the amount of learning that needs to occur at younger ages is higher than at older ages.  I agree.  But I'm not sure how that matters.  Maybe you are suggesting that ingesting printed bound books is the best way to learn the highest quantity of information, so that is what should happen in school?  Maybe.  But then what?  How does the transition occur?  Do children go through 13 years of school with physical books and then enter college and the workforce without them?  Is that optimal?

To your second point:  What? [/quote]

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