A plague of pessimism

Posted on Jan 10 2001

Most of our learning is done through the senses. Researchers estimate that we learn 1% through taste; 2% through touch; 4% through smell; 11 % through hearing; and 82% through sight! And we retain 20% of what we hear and 50% of what we see and hear!

Add to those statistics the fact that children between the ages of 6 to 17, watch television an average of 26 hours per week or about 1,352 hours a year. Compare this to about 25 hours per week or 900 hours per year spent in the classroom!

These are important percentages when children are concerned. This overwhelming amount of time spent on television has created a plague of pessimism in our children. How many murders, rapes, gang fights, obscene movies, shouting and ranting of unintelligible lyrics by unkempt musicians, drug deals, abuse of women and children, and stories of dysfunctional families does a child

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