The Dumbing Of America-questions

1. The author is trying to say that this country is heading to the wrong direction. A quote from the author is "The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself."
2. The evidence that the author gives is that the U.S. is getting out of hand and the U.S. has been going downward for several decades. Baby Einstein proves that we are getting dumber by mentioning that certain programs or things that might be affecting our education and that is why so many people are dropping out.
3. Jacobs believes that lack of education caused dumbness because of people being lazy.
4. What the author means by anti-intellectualism is that people are dumb and lazy. Anti-intellectualism is when people aren't putting enough effort into what they are doing. Playing video games instead of reading a book might cause laziness.
5. The "erosion of general knowledge" is when certain things are affecting their knowledge which is making them dumber.
6. Basically what the 2nd to last paragraph is saying is that the lack of knowledge is make the people dumber by not knowing important information.
7. She is possibly right because personally my family is a little lazy. We watch TV and we are always on the computer but we aren't loosing our intelligence.