Posted on 07/09/2010 7:40:22 AM PDT by mattstat
new campus joke: “Dude, she was all like, ‘What’s that building? It’s, like, so big.’ And I go, ‘That’s the library. There’s like so many books.”
Ha ha ha ha!
Oh, how the tears roll down my face every time I hear that one. It’s the image conjured in the mind, you see. Those wacky kids actually know what the library is!
Of course, knowing where the library was, what was in it, and intuiting the purpose of the objects held there used to be a commonplace. But now, according to Philip Babcock (UC Santa Barbara) and Mindy Marks (UC Riverside), modern students have better things to do than—I love this phrase— engage in “long-form reading“.
You know it’s bad news when academics have to invent a new term to replace an old, perfectly serviceable one. “Reading” used to mean, “reading books.” Now, barely having the patience to scan the 140-characters of a Tweet counts as “short-form reading.” Poor “reading”! It was such a useful word, but it has been massacred by intellectuals.
Babcock and Marks had to rely on self report, and on surveys taken then and now. So all their results should be viewed with caution. For example, how many students, when approached by a campus survey taker, who might well be a professor, will honestly answer “0″ when asked how many hours she studies?
(Excerpt) Read more at wmbriggs.com ...
lulz.....is this another “unexpected” type ping?
Expected if you ask me being the libtards and progressives that have taken over hordes of school districts across the country have students believing in social justice and equality principles. Come on, I mean geezus, why give any effort when grades are being bumped, students do not fail classes anymore, there are no winners — both sides get trophies for success, blah, blah, blah.......it is going to get worse for this ‘give me now’ generation, bet.
ping for later read
Less people with which to compete for jobs.
SnakeDoc
The internet has replaced libraries.
I think there was a study a while back which showed that
children who were raised in the “country” had more skills
at adaptation, invention, resourcefulness, and more drive
to succeed. Whereas children raised in a city where most
of the lives were programmed had less of the those skills.
Now that everyone lives in a “virtual city” with their
“engagedness” it is not surprising to see the stultifying of
their intellectual pursuits.
Television, the Internet, constant pop culture, sex, government indoctrination centers for schools, parents not taking a role or responsibility in their education, of course students are learning less, and half of what they are learning needs to be unlearned before real education can take place.
Why is anyone surprised?
Professors have watered down their courses.
I remember when I was a graduate student reading in the main lbrary I over heard this comment said by one undergraduate to another:
“Would you believe I’m a senior and I’ve never been in here before?”
More voting parasites to work for.
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