It s not so much what they watch but that they watch - for hours and hours and hours.
Many children spend more time in front of the television screen than they do in the classroom.
Joyce Nelson assesses the performance of the teacher in the living-room and looks at the lessons being taught. For years US statistics have been telling us that people watch, on average, more than seven hours of television a day. In fact, by the time they reach the age of 18, most children have spent more time in front of the TV set than at school. As this profile of human life in the late twentieth century becomes a planet-wide characteristic, it raises grave doubts about the future of human intellect and the goal of educating children to become balanced and rounded human beings. Television erects major obstacles to that goal both by imposing its own definition of what a whole person is and by teaching us a way of living that accords with its own curriculum.