Re-creating school is not all we need to do. We need to make it clear that we are never going to ignite the thinking process and encourage independent inquiry if we allow children to spend twenty hours a week watching television, then twenty hours more glued to video games. Children will not learn much that way.

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ANSWER: On the contrary, they will learn a great deal. They will learn how to seek instant gratification, how to expect all life problems to resolve themselves in twenty-eight and half minutes, and to vent their frustrations over problems that don’t instantly resolve themselves by using violence.
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Entertainment industry executives deny that TV, MOVIE, AND VIDEO IMAGES, however violent, are responsible for young people’s violent behavior.

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ANSWER: Are these the same executives who sell SUPER BOWL COMMERCIALS for a half million dollars apiece, claiming that they can influence behaviors in sixty seconds?
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Kids know it’s “just a game”

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ANSWER: Do you know what some police and military academies use to teach professionals quick hand-eye coordination, and to shoot to kill without emotion.
(Video Games)
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stay tune…….part 2 tomorrow