Think About lt.
By Kandase
@Kandae11 (57233)
April 11, 2022 12:15pm CST
Those of us whose schooldays happened to be in the '40s, '50s, '60s and '70s would not have had the benefit of technological study aids available to students these days.
Yet students from those days managed to excel and advance the technology being used today.
It couldn't have been easy. I remember doing homework by candlelight; l remember treks to the library and mountains of books for research.
It makes me think that today's students with all the facilities available for making study easier should be doing great academically-- but are they?
What do you think? Do you recall some of the challenges you may have faced while trying to get an education?
Do you think you would have performed better if you had the advantages today's kids have?
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@bunnybon7 (50970)
• Holiday, Florida
11 Apr 22
Sure I may have been able to finish school while having my babies. 
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@snowy22315 (208746)
• United States
11 Apr 22
It would have been nice to have computer classes. We just had typing and I took a summer class once in keypunch...fancy typing precursor to the computer.
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@LadyDuck (502148)
• Italy
12 Apr 22
I also remember the visits to the library to research through mountains of book.
A too easy life is not too good for the brain and scientists are showing that what you learn through Internet is easily forgotten. I am glad we were not technologically advanced.
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@Deepizzaguy (122067)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
11 Apr 22
That is a good question since I have writing skills that I learned in the 1970s but I do not have the skills of using a computer to draw up images with captions like persons today do.
I think of myself as Fred Flintstone instead of George Jetson.
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@Deepizzaguy (122067)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
12 Apr 22
@Kandae11 You are right that kids are smarter because of technology.
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@db20747 (43419)
• Washington, District Of Columbia
11 Apr 22
I think so. I would have looked up science fair projects. I had no idea what to do. This was not my favorite topic. The teacher and nobody else had enough knowledge or common sense to tell me go to the library aNd find books on science fair projects. So I just didn't turn in anything in chemistry class. The teacher should have given packets of projects with instructions for projects. Kids to day have much more information right at their fingertips.
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@patgalca (18481)
• Orangeville, Ontario
11 Apr 22
I think about the fact that we didn't have those devices and computers. And to make a student today not use them for tests is ridiculous because in doing a job/profession they would have access to technology.
However, can we please continue to teach children to write in cursive? That is one thing that should not die away. You need to know how to sign your name for goodness sakes!
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@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
11 Apr 22
I think because we did not have everything in front of us, we actually had to learn how to learn. By this I mean we had to sometimes take several steps in order to get and use whatever information we had. We were a resourceful generation of learners. But now all the information is at kids' fingertips . . . there's no need to take the extra steps like we did. The ease is taken for granted - so maybe less learning is involved. Maybe people have become lazier in the need or want to "learn".
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@Kandae11 (57233)
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11 Apr 22
I couldn't have said it better. Apart from learning there are all the gadgets for making even housework easier. Our parents and grandparents really had it tough in comparison to how things are now.l remember my mother ironing our clothes with flat irons placed on a hot stove.
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@RubyHawk (99367)
• Atlanta, Georgia
12 Apr 22
Back in the day. We studied and did our best with what we had to do with. We carried loads of books home with us every day to study and we did loads of home work. It’s a different time now. Kids now have all the information at their fingertips. I don’t know if we can compare then and now. I do think we were more serious with our studies.
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@ihasaquestion (8273)
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12 Apr 22
Having a MacBook would have made my revision studies easier back then.
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