Students have been “taught” to think of themselves as customers purchasing a product of their own choosing, rather than as mentally amorphous blobs who need their brains to be gut-trained into shape. I tell my local Chinese take-out which food I want because I am the customer, and that is how students today think of their professors—and I say this as a college instructor.
What we are seeing in the NFL this season has been going on at college campuses for at least a decade, and is only getting worse, because the general population has yet to conclude that the vast majority of people going to college could have successful lives while avoiding college. When that realization begins to filter into the general population, colleges will collapse the way the NFL will collapse. The experience of Mizzou losing a large percentage of its student body will become commonplace. As a college instructor, I selfishly hope it doesn’t happen before I am gone, but I wouldn’t blame the non-students if it did.
“Students have been “taught” to think of themselves as customers purchasing a product of their own choosing”
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