De nos jours, les jeunes passent plus de temps au contact des médias qu'à l'école — télévision, musique sur le iPod, navigation sur Internet —, et ils absorbent ainsi une grande partie de leurs connaissances sur le monde, eux-mêmes et les autres.
Young people today often are spending more time interacting with media than they are in school. When they're using media—watching television, listening to music on their iPods, surfing the web—they're absorbing a large part of their knowledge about the world and themselves and others.