No doubt. I wasn't trying to imply that either one is useless, but things change and new technology takes over. Another person replied to me comparing cursive and typing on a computer. I catch myself thinking that new generations are at a disadvantage because they don't learn the same things I did. But it may not always be necessary that they do. I am of the computer typing generation. I didn't learn to write beautiful cursive, but my life hasn't been negatively impacted even though many people have expressed sympathy for my awful education. I was just trying to say I think it's a rather normal thing for old systems to get phased out of a classroom from time to time. It's not really a good reason to believe that younger generations are doomed. But like I said I fall into that line of thinking myself from time to time.

Are you from the US? I'm completely amazed that there are counties we you are almost never exposed to analog clocks. I'm from Europe and analog clocks are everywhere. Every train station, public buildings, churches, clock towers, homes, wrist watches. Heck we even have tons of (but more because of esthetics instead of serious time keeping) sun dials on walls (which the analog clock and the clock wise direction is based on - for the north hemisphere). Many appliances/devices have digital clocks but that's not because the are more modern/better but because they are way cheaper to produce and have less moving parts.

Surely this comes from the American, not European point of view, yeah?

Teacher here.

I'm pretty certain that the only place where my students ever encounter an analog clock is at school.

What the actual fuck? Are you not using wrist watches at all at whatever US hole you are a teacher at? Because most of these are analogue.

I'm 32, I wear an analog clock on my arm every day

Beat me to it. If only my dad had saves his