Genius dumb can calculate a rockets trajectory around the sun, but when it comes to simple stuff like "set this on a rock" it becomes an impossible task. Why? Because they want to know which rock, how big a rock. They have to find the heat conductive rock rather then just any ol' rock. Genius dumb has the inability to opperate without being a GENIUS. Which means, ultimately, they will find the perfect rock, however, they'll starve to death before they manage to make it to step two.
Too many of the up-coming generation simply can't
think.
This evening my 19-year old, college-bound daughter asked me for a ruler. Told her there were several in the drawer in the kitchen, by the telephone. She came back with an old-style, 12-inch wooden grammar school ruler ... and asked me if the markings were in inches or centimeters.
I guess she wanted centimeters, because she put that one back and came out with one that has inches on one edge and millimeters on the other. She looked at it cross-eyed for a minute, and then asked me what "MM" stands for. Mind you, this is a kid who grew up outside of the U.S., in a place where metric is spoken and feet and inches are unknown. I had to explain -- slowly and painfully -- that "MM" is "millimeters," and that 10 millimeters equal one centimeter. I'm still not sure she got it.
This is a kid who maxed the math portion of the college entrance exams.
Sheesh!