In today’s world, many novels center around teenagers, such as dystopian books like The Hunger Games or Fahrenheit 451, in which they are portrayed as revolutionary and intelligent, a contrast to how teenagers in real life are seen as lazy (often due to the growing prevalence of technology in daily life) and therefore having less valuable opinions. However, many teenagers, such as famous ones Malala Yousafzai and Kendall Jenner or the many who are in protests, have been able to disprove this claim (CITE). Teenagers in real life usually have a schedule that revolves around school for their formative years, considering that they are often told how important an education is. This means that changes to schooling greatly affect them, such as
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She describes her fear of other teenagers, and says, “Six of my friends have been shot in the last year alone. Ten of them died in car wrecks. I’m afraid of them and they don’t like me because I’m afraid” (Bradbury …show more content…
the most stressful thing [they’ve] done in school” and “convoluted” (Strauss). This type of teaching takes away the ability for teachers to teach the way they see fit, and as the author of the article says, “If a teacher loses the ability to tailor their instruction, we might as well have robots in the classroom who would be as cold and heartless as the computerized tests they give.” This also connects to the overwhelming and incomprehensible schooling that Clarisse describes, where she says, “[i]t’s a lot of funnels and a lot of water poured down the spout and out the bottom…” (33). It also connects to the prevalence of technology in Guy and Clarisse’s
She describes her fear of other teenagers, and says, “Six of my friends have been shot in the last year alone. Ten of them died in car wrecks. I’m afraid of them and they don’t like me because I’m afraid” (Bradbury …show more content…
the most stressful thing [they’ve] done in school” and “convoluted” (Strauss). This type of teaching takes away the ability for teachers to teach the way they see fit, and as the author of the article says, “If a teacher loses the ability to tailor their instruction, we might as well have robots in the classroom who would be as cold and heartless as the computerized tests they give.” This also connects to the overwhelming and incomprehensible schooling that Clarisse describes, where she says, “[i]t’s a lot of funnels and a lot of water poured down the spout and out the bottom…” (33). It also connects to the prevalence of technology in Guy and Clarisse’s