Originally Posted by TheDarkWraith

It's dumbing down because no-one is standing up and saying this is wrong. Look at schools. They are not the schools that I grew up in. We had to do everything by hand (mathematics). We had to graph by hand. We had to actually know theory and the whys so that we could do/make something. Nowadays schools are enforcing that students have this whammy dine calculator or even worse a laptop! They don't teach theory or the whys anymore - they teach how to be robots that respond with a given set of actions based on what's given. They don't want you to think. A society that's dumb is easily controlled. That's what 'they' are striving for