Computer Games are like Drugs
Did you know that computer games are like drugs? According to Boris Johnson MP they are. Last December he wrote a rather lengthy article comparing computer games to drugs and blaming computer games for the increasing illiteracy of our Nation.
Boris wrote:
It is a shock, arriving at university, and being asked to compose an essay of a couple of thousand words, and then discovering that you can't do it; and this demoralisation is a major cause of dropping-out. It's not that the students lack the brains; the raw circuitry is better than ever. It's the software that's the problem. They have not been properly programmed, because they have not read enough.
It sounds now as though young people are units on a production line through school being programmed to suit the needs of the nation. If the MPs have this view on schooling no wonder illiteracy is increasing. Could it just be that schools are not engaging children and young people, or perhaps that some parents believe that it is the school's job to educate their children and that they should have no need to help them (my parents are not like this).
Haha, from experience it's definitely not down to computer games!
Boris needs to go and play some strategy games, he might learn something that's crucial to being a good MP.
Wed 28th March, 2007