Every generation thinks kids are too distracted

This was a warning from Thomas Jefferson that kids were reading way too many novels and it was poisoning their mind.

This demonstrates how each generation thinks the kids are too distracted with (INSERT WHATEVER TECHNOLOGY IS NEW) throughout time.

It reads:

A great obstacle to good education is the inordinate passion prevalent for novels...when this poison infects the mind, it destroys it’s tone, and revolts it against wholesome reading. reason and fact, plain and unadorned, are rejected. nothing can engage attention unless dressed in all the figments of fancy; and nothing so bedecked comes amiss. the result is a bloated imagination, sickly judgment, and disgust towards all the real businesses of life"