> The comments are good too. The only difference between generations is that my students write incoherent sentences on paper and the internet. I have this sin

> The comments are good too. The only difference between generations is that my students write incoherent sentences on paper and the internet. I have this sinking feeling that an average ninth-grade graduate of fifty years ago (basically what it took to be a secretary, if I've got my bearings right) was about as competent and educated as today's college sophomores (present company excepted, of course). So, extrapolating from two dubious data points, we're extending childhood by 5 years every 50 ... 29-year old "minors" coming up by the end of the century ;-)