France to ban mobile phones in primary, junior and middle schools

Re:France to ban mobile phones in primary, junior and middle... by saurik on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @03:45AM (#15912949)

You can't rely on books as you can't carry enough of them with you for them to replace having to know things, and a phone is a fundamentally different thing from even an infinite number of books anyway, as it is a tool that let's you communicate--in private--with people around the world. It is totally legitimate for someone to have an issue with one of these objects and not the other entirely different object.

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Re:France to ban mobile phones in primary, junior and middle... by sgift on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @04:49AM (#15913200)

Well, maybe I use my phone very different from others. For me the "read things on it" aspect is the most important part. Before I had a smartphone (I got my first two years ago) I tended to carry five or six books around all the time. Now I don't need to anymore and can still read whenever I want.

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Re:France to ban mobile phones in primary, junior and middle... by hycaria on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @04:59AM (#15913248)

Good for you, but maybe consider we're talking about children there, who probably didn't even pick up the habit of reading yet ? (read about the catastrophic reading proficiency in children nowadays if you have any doubts about this kind of claim).

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Re:France to ban mobile phones in primary, junior and middle... by yoz-y on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @05:45AM (#15913419)

Compared to phones, books offer delayed gratification. Although it is possible to come to a library and only look at the first and last page of a hundred books, not many people do so.

Stuff one can get on phones are however massive dopamine inducing machines.

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