Michael Cooney
Senior Editor

Do iPods create selfish kids?

Opinion
Mar 24, 20051 min

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A private school in Australia has banned iPods as they encourage students to be selfish loners, reports The Register.

According to the site, International Grammar School Principal Kerrie Murphy “noticed that iPod-toting children were isolating themselves into a cocoon of solipsism.”

Wow and, um, what? (Ed. – Solipsism: “A theory holding that the self can know nothing but its own modifications and that the self is the only existent thing.”)

The Register, in addition to expanding our vocabulary, also notes: “Apple’s advertising for the iPod makes a virtue of people dancing on their own, locked up in a private world only they understand. And what can this lead to, but anti-social values later in life?”

Via The Register