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April 2nd, 2008 @ 14:21
Presidential hopeful Barack Obama reckons parents should be encouraging their children to read instead of allowing them to level up, telling Americans that “government can’t do everything” when it comes to education.
“Turn off the television, turn off the video games,” he said, as reported here.
Anyone else from the “real” world want to slag off games today? Come on. There’s bound to be at least one more.
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April 2nd, 2008 at 2:36 pm
He’s right! If we don’t teach our kids to read and write now, who’s going to write inane banter on the gaming forums of tomorrow, eh? Eh?
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:40 pm
He is right. My little girl can hit my keyboard in a random fashion and she isn’t even two. I’ll have her writing books before she’s four, games or no games.
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Wow!
Seems like games are a politicians favourite whipping boy these days.
I’m sure that most of their target voters will be gamers within the next 5-10 years, so what will they do then??
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:16 pm
It’s a vicious circle - they write the crap, we report it, they get the clicks and write even more. The only solution is to stop reading it. Some might say ‘education’ was a better solution, but when did that ever work?
On the flip slide Obama is bitching about both telly and games here, so fair play - kids probably do watch the screen more than they should.
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:58 am
The quote above, on it’s own and without context misses out on the message he was delivering. He isn’t attacking video-games. He wants to promote activities for kids that are beneficial to their social and academic education.
The whole message was wholly positive yet surprise, surprise, a little bit of it is taken out and spun a little.
April 3rd, 2008 at 9:01 am
Well, he didn’t say “tell you kids to stop sitting inside reading books all day,” did he?