The Inability to Hear and Listen

You end the book by making a plea almost fore kind of resumption of this, this sense of the public square. There is an art to being with other people, even in silence, you know, and not finding it terribly awkward. And digital technology has really taken away that talent for many, especially young people who become so overly reliant on their cell phones. The school is where democracy starts. That's where we learn to be around other people. Tragically, when we become adult citizens in america, we are not so much around other people at all. And the privacy of suburbia hurst.