‘My son used to be a voracious reader — a couple books a week. And then we gave him a phone and the reading stopped.’
It turns out that even "Elite college students" can't muster the cerebral capacity and mental acuity to read books.
The edgy title of last week's article in The Atlantic, "The Elite College Students Who Can't Read Books," certainly attracted clicks and evoked the intended volume of outrage.
The subtitle of the article, "To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school," haughtily points the finger at the wrong assailant.
Rest assured, high school English teachers would absolutely love to assign more books and more reading.
They would cheer at the prospect of having students read the books they assign.
Yet we somehow expect these same kids who can't enjoy a simple bike or horse ride to sit down in a corner and spend hours reading a book.
As one of my best friends recently observed, "My son used to be a voracious reader - a couple books a week. And then we gave him a phone and the reading stopped."
https://thefederalist.com/2024/10/14/phones-are-destroying-kids-ability-to-read-books/
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