We are Smart!!

Reading these articles and listening to what Bauerlein is saying about our generation is really starting frustrate me.  I understand how he can think that younger generations may seem less intelligent than him, but that does not mean that we are "dumb" in any way!  I think that every generation looks at the ones after them and thinks that they are less intelligent or that they do not learn what they learned in school, that their use of technology is way too advanced for their age because when you were their age you never would have thought of being that technologically advanced.  With each younger generation come a series of changes and adaptations that may have occurred later in life for the previous generation and with that comes a little bit of jealousy and animosity towards the younger generation and along with that, the thought that because it happened at a different time it makes them "dumb" or know less than the generation before at the same age. 
For me, I feel pretty offended that Bauerlein thinks any one that is under the age of 30 is "dumb", I do not see why I need to defend my intelligence all the time.  I worked my way through each level of school and got my self into college, that is not an easy task for everyone.  If Bauerlein feels that we lack a well rounded educational background then why is that as college students we are still required to take the general education courses to graduate, we still have to study History, English, Communication, Sciences, and Mathematics.  True, those classes may not interest every single student but that does not mean that they do not learn the material and not only learn it to pass the class but learn it and remember key information to keep their education well rounded. 
I grew up watching and playing trivia shows and games like, Jeopardy, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Cash Cab and Trivial Pursuit.  All of those games require both general knowledge as well as pointless knowledge about things like what are the names of the seven dwarfs in Snow White.  The idea of being knowledgeable vs being dumb is not drawn by a solid black line.  A person can a have a head full of common sense but no know the first thing about hydrothermal metamorphism, does that make them dumb? No! It means that they learned and or were taught differently from the person that can tell  you what hydrothermal metamorphism is!  This whole idea of being dumb needs to take a few steps back and look at the bigger picture, who are the people responsible for making sure the younger generations are educated, because with every year that goes by there are new educators thrust into the field and it becomes their job to pass what they have learned onto the next generation of students.