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DR. OWSLEY, I PRESUME -- AUGUSTUS STANLEY OWSLEY III FOUND ALIVE!
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Augustus Stanley Owsley III on Childrensī Television:
Childrenīs Television
The programming on so called "childrenīs television" is the single most societally destructive activity ever developed. Programs such as Sesame Street are a passive, non-interactive activity. This is most dangerous to young children under the age of 8 years. The human child has no time to waste during these formative years. The only way children learn is while engaged in ACTIVE interaction with adults and other children. We are observing the rapid breakdown of the society around us. Many people recognize that it is somehow related to TV, but usually blame content. Content isnīt the determining factor, it is the passive nature of the medium.
Look at kids in front of the tube. Glassy eyes fixed on the images. PASSIVE. Children have been tested and it has been shown they donīt learn from Sesame Street. Except, of course, they learn to engage in TV-watching...
All childrenīs television falls into this category, not just Sesame St. The cartoons, which many adults object to, arenīt directly destructive to the kids because of the violence, but because during the time they are engaged in TV-watching they donīt learn the things required to be a fully developed human. Later, when the kids are older, the violence might be looked on as acceptable behaviour. This would be due to the lack of socialisation from the earlier TV watching, normal kids wouldnīt accept it. If you remember, there were cases of so-called"feral children" discovered from time to time who were thought to have been nurtured by animals. These children were found to be unable to learn to talk and to interact with others in a normal human fashion.
There are "windows" of time in which certain skills must be learned by children, and if these windows close, then the child will never learn those skills. So it is that we have all those kids out there who behave as though they were incapable of understanding how to live. They donīt, and the scary thing is, it may not be possible now for them to learn. Most people donīt understand this. The nearest thing to a description of the effect would be found amongst Marshall MacLuhanīs works. So most think I am some sort of ratbag for being against childrenīs TV. They have become dependent upon it to support their lifestyle, like an addictive drug. I have given the whole matter a great deal of thought.
I was a TV broadcast engineer for many years, and still hold the highest class of license the US govīt issues. I am old enough so that I first had a TV in my home when I was 13. NO kids in those days had what is now referred to as "dyslexia". Everybody could read. Of course some were much faster and better readers than others, But... EVERYONE could read. Nowadays they claim up to 40% of kids in the US and 50+% in Australia are extremely deficient in reading skills and a significant number canīt read at all....
[link to www.thebear.org]
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