Are kids smarter today then they were 25 years ago?

Yes due to exposure of TV and internet , kids are more advanced. They know more when compared to us at their age.

smartness is not intelligence it doesnt come by age it comes by experience.now a days kids have a lot of exposure and they get matured soon so they become smarter when they reach the age of 25

ya rite now a child has all the info that he wants 25 years ago he would just listen to parents or grandpas but on few things now he knows abt all

yes i completely agree with u...i think one of the most important reason 4 this is increasing competition.....25 yrs ago u don't hve to push urself to that extreme as compared to now...n this competition start at the age of 3 like to get in to a good school n many more these things hve critically contributed to the smartness of today kid.....

The kids are more aware of the world than the children of 25 years ago due to the spread of computer and internet and other global media.They are also a bit smarter than the previous generation.The information is spread to every nook and corner in the world making it accessible to everyone.It is partly responsible for the kids being smarter today.The development of science and technology also is a factor for the smartness.

Yes I believe the children today are smarter than the children 25 years ago, not because of the individual, but because children nowadays are taught more!

they just learn different skills. Very few people had a computer 25 years ago so understandably not many kids could use them back then. I don't think kids are naturally cleverer, maybe teaching is now better and having access to more information makes learning easier but in terms of smartness i don't think there is any difference

Yeah, you do have a point there. I think there is a possibility that they know more than they did than.

yes and no. Yes: we have access (easy as you say) to a much higher mass of information. this skills that come with this are basic reseach skills which allow us to navigate this mass and separate "usefull" from "extraneous" information. People of today have had to master "filtering" skills that were not needed 25-50 years ago. no: while I don't know what the academic situation was 25 years ago, certainly 50-75 years ago the students had to work much harder, the disciplinary and authoritarian structures forced people into much more "mastery of the material" as opposed to "mastery of the information matrix". I think that this is why the graduate school drop out ratio is much much higher today than it was: students who make it to the phd level of studies are finding that the graduate school style still retains much of the 1940's style... (comprehensive exams, defense of the dissertation etc) while the Bachelor and undergrad degree programs have changed significantly...

Yes, the kids are smarter then those of age 25yrs old this is because of the technology development in the world.The computer world has changed the life of everyone in teh world and made teh life much more simpler.

Smarter? If they are it is because of the computer. Take away their computers and they freeze. They rely on technology way too much. Take away the computer and let them think for themselves. Don't let calculators in the classroom. Make them use libraries again. Do the research the hard way.

They're being taught more, because that's what we pushed for. We realized that if we could have learned more in school, things would have been easier. The problem now is with all this technology, no one realy knows how much of the learned things are actually retained later on. Think about it. Before you programmed people's phone numbers into your phone, you either remember them, or looked them up, right? Now you just press a button and there it is. You're technically not smarter, right? I forget numbers now that I don't have to remember them.

I think kids have less common sense these days, but they have more street smarts. How can those two go together? They don't understand how simple things work (like they have never painted a room, and don't know how to go about it) but they can negotiate their way through a school in a rough neighborhood. They have much more access to information, and much more quickly. They learn differently too. The 50's generation (mine) kept to the straight and narrow and followed the rules. Kids now just find a way around the problem, or out of the box. Bottom line: Kids are smarter, they just have better tools.

You mean during human evolution, the brain has gotten bigger? Because I don't think that the brain increases in layers with time, it even decreases in aging (that's why older people have some memory lapses and poorer muscle control). Anyway, if the kids nowadays know more things than before, it's because of the tons of information that are being fed into their brain everyday. Even the things that they need to learn in school has increased. But have you ever wondered why the kids before, minus the privileges of computer technology and vast knowledge, turned out to become Einstein, Darwin, and the like? Just a thought. Your topic is very interesting. It got me to think.

I do think that kids today are much more smarter than they were 25 years ago due to the advance in technology and the availability of other things. Kids are getting a early start on computers and doing more things than adults can on a computer these days. Kids also know how to get into more kinds of trouble than 25 years ago so that is a bad thing. Kids did not have all of or many of these things back then so they definitely have an advantage of many of us adults.

i think its a theory of fraued tht every species improve with time, so our kids too follow the same!!!!!!!!!yes with every generation, i think mankind is going smarter, and if u rem such type of comments we to used to hear from our elders when we were young ....tht these kids are smarter than us. the only thing is the pace of getting smarter has increased!!! they can now easily operate comps and know more about cell fones and otehr gadgets, we cant play as fast as them the vedio games.

yes they are more well informed and since their birth they get the environment where everyone surrounding them has some smartness.. and in young age .. brain learns very fast.. thats fastest learning curve human goes thru in his life... so a child learns everything he gets in his surroundings.. and so they are more smarter....

KIds of today are definitely much smarter than they were 25 years ago. In my home i have seen that my 3 year old niece is really smart. she even surprises us with her smartness with every thing. may be we were not able to think the things at her age that she is doing.

off course they r

Yes they are definatly smarter because of wide information available throught the media. You really don't need to teach them...they learn by themselves.