And they still read Harry Potter. Which leads into other things.

And there are more people of all ages writing letters to each other than there ever have been. Except they call them emails and posts and so forth.

The job of schools is to help people acquire a taste for finding good things and a belief in their ability to find them and learn to enjoy them. If teachers think it's their job to stuff young people full of all the things they are going to need and use, they are fooling themselves, because it's never been like that and it never will be.