Are people less sucsessful now then back then?

When I go to school I see kids on there cell phones, and other devices that distract them from learning. I see alot of people that would rather die for there Iphone then they would die for sucess in life now, And back then you didn't have all these technologies that would distract and hurt you in schooling. Back then all you had was tv, schooling and the outdoors. Every day I see teachers that yell and that tell the students to get out of the classrooms either because they didn't want to put there phone away or they were just making wrong decisions. Heck One of my teachers gave up on us because half of our class is to busy talking or being on there cellphones. What's your opinion? Do you think people are less sucsessful in highschool now or back then? And the one thing I'm afraid about in the future generation is that are they going to make the school laws more strict? Or are they going to stay the same. Because I believe you should only use your phone or cell phone for emergencies such as dialing your mom or calling the police when you need it.

Technology is still advancing fast and the future will be brighter. Cellphones and hard time in school, alwasy was and will be this way.

The losers are bigger losers and the winners are bigger winners.

When I was a kid me and my brother spray-painted ants and lit stuff on fire. We drew huge complicated pencil drawings of bomber planes attacking the school so it had to be shut down and all the kids could just hang out at home. We would have killed for an iphone. It would have made us no less stupid then and no less successful now.

My opinion is that you're getting old and cynical. FIGHT IT! Don't be cynical!