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📢 文末扫码进裙，免费领取双语精读版 If you really want to relax, put that phone down The dopamine hit of smartphones, described as the modern-day hypodermic needle, is not the same as switching off. Financial Times Mental health 14 July, 2024 | 800 words | ★★ ★ ★ ☆ The smartphone, once hailed as a tool of great progress and prosperity, has been getting a bad rap of late. It emerged this week that when new students at Eton start the school year in September, their devices must not come with them. Instead, they will each be given a “dumb” Nokia phone that is unable to access the internet and only allows calls and texts. Deprived teens might feel the psychologist Jonathan Haidt, who popularised the idea that we should blame smartphones for rising rates of mental health problems among young people, has a lot to answer for. Teachers at nearly two-thirds of secondary schools now say they have rules that prevent students from using their phones during
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