Are Teens Too Clever
If you watched the junior series of The Apprentice, you’ll know that children these days are getting clever, fast. On that show alone, half the apprentices had already been involved in business, and the other half had already done some major deals…and this is at an age when I can remember hanging out at friends houses playing violent video games and thinking I was doing too bad. I blame it on the technology. Back in my day, technology wouldn’t let me access one third of the information that children today have available to them wherever they go, using their iphones.
I say “are teens too clever” because a recent alarming news story – which is set to become a film, I have been told – told of one teen who had learnt how to fly planes from instructional manuals. Not only that but he’d learnt complex things from the internet, all of which combined had enabled him to travel all over the world on one massive long joy-ride. Would he have been able to do this without the internet? It’s highly unlikely. He probably would have done quite well without it, but as everyone knows, the newest technological information is mainly only available online (I even saw some official custom signs on there which had been used by the FBI at their headquarters: handy for a few things, I can imagine).
So you have to ask yourself: is having access to all this a good or a bad thing? Could it be that actually, instead of educating our young, all we are doing is training them up to become things they shouldn’t be able to be?
I don’t think so. After all, anyone, if they really put their mind to it, could hunt out the relevant information needed to fly an aircraft. The fact is…only the bravest of teens would be able to do it. Maybe we should be giving people like that a medal instead of a stay in a juvenile detention centre?
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