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Technology, stupidity and education View Comments George Will, as you likely know, is a conservative political commentator, mostly for the Washington Post. He is an excellent and articulate writer and usually provides food for thought, whether I agree with him politically or not. I also give him high marks for maintaining a strong sense of balanced sanity during the troubling times our nation has been through. A recent (4/14) column of his had some interesting perspectives on technology, which I think can have pertinent connections in education. Allow me to lay some groundwork. The column r...
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Many 21st-century Americans are impressed, and distressed, by the supposed power of late-20th-century technologies, especially the Internet and social media, to shape society, and them. Two 19th-century technologies stirred somewhat similar uneasiness: The railroad and the telegraph, which were arguably as socially transformative as digital innovations are said to be, saved the nation from dismemberment, and fertilized the culture of freedom. Ted Widmer, a historian at City University of New York, explains this in âLincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington.â It is a detailed...
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