He suggests that the brains of young people today work differently from those of their parents. He argues that digital immersion, in which children may be texting while surfing the internet and listening to their MP3 player, can help them to develop critical thinking skills.
on the other hand:
a core level of knowledge was essential: “It’s important that children learn facts. If you have no store of knowledge in your head to draw from, you cannot easily engage in discussions or make informed decisions.”

Michael Gove, the Shadow Schools Secretary, has recently criticised “the move away from fact-based learning”, arguing that “knowledge, intellectual capital, is what makes educational progress possible”.

We are amidst new era, and new challenges. i do think that the way people feel and think today cannot be directly deduced from past generation and conceptions. How to implement the changes, how to direct them, is the most interesting riddle.

It has long been said that the smart man is not the one who knows all the answers, but rather is the man who knows where to find them. I would say that the real answer to the question posed in the clip would be the middle ground with an emphasis placed on connecting the dots of cause and effect of historical events and creative instructional techniques which cause a thirst for undestanding and research.

BB - couldn't have been said better.