everyday education

What is with people that the world has to be so fast? I caught myself in the act the other day. The computer was loading the page and I found myself already impatient. So I looked at the clock to see how much time I had wasted waiting, guess what, 2 minutes. I felt so ungrateful!
I hold that against technology. Now machines and computer chips are doing all the work that our brain is more then capable to do. They call this generation a generation of information. Yet what do you spend most of our attention on? How much this movie star lost weight, who broke up with who and other completely useless information. I say instead of putting more and better computers in schools, the money should be going to better reading material, better teachers, and giving them a quality education. I'm not saying no child left behind standards, which most schools have struggles meeting already, I say far surpassing that.
I was in a college freshman classroom and I met students in there that could hardly read not even asking them to comprehend what they just read. Everyone seemed on an equal plane except for me and this other girl. Weirdly enough, both of us attended private school instead of public. It was a very humbling and challanging experience. I had a new appreciation for teachers and when our teacher elected her and I to become teachers aides. Whew! The aspect of trying to explain to someone how the adjective describes the noun was tough.
If there are parents out there pondering where to take their kid. I highly suggest a private school. I am so so grateful my parents took me to one. Not only was the education good but the close knit relations with teachers and students. I could have never asked for better teachers. Their dedication to their students is something I highly admire. I hardly had to confront drugs in the classroom or gangs because I was surrounded all high achieving, no nonsense friends. By the time I graduated, 100% of my small senior class were all accepted to colleges ranging from Ivy league schools to community colleges.
Yet with all that knowledge, we had a small computer lab that we had access to and one man managing everything. That's another thing about growing up on a reservation, no internet. But one thing I do love about the rez is you can't become disconnected to the earth or at least where I lived. That is why i found it so disheartening that i feel into that trap of tangled electrical cords and wireless communication.