I concur, as well, with what you have indicated. I spent years teaching uni. students from Freshmen to Seniors. So many observational conclusions I could tell here, but yeah, one thing I noticed/observed is that many of my Freshmen students could scarcely put a proper academic paragraph together, many lacked adequate studying skills, most failed at rational objective thinking and reasoning, and even lacked the ability to read and then comprehend what they read. I have literally witnessed, year after year, Senior level uni students GRADUATE and still lack those writing, reading and comprehension skills.
After 12 years of watching and experiencing higher education literally become just another failed mechanism like the K12 system, I knew it was time for me to leave and move on. I loved teaching and working with students, but when the system is too busy indoctrinating them and sucking every last dollar out of their souls, so to speak, I realized that both the K12 and uni/college higher education had/have become nothing more than an ideological libtard assembly line that I could no longer tolerate. Imagine a system that is creating our future leaders .... who for the most part, are themselves ill-prepared to face the real world and the host of real life situations and problems. I could go on and on, but will not. So frakin’ frustration, but yeah, we are currently reaping what we have sown, how sad and unfortunate.
I understand. It’s part of the reason my husband and I retired. We were in parochial school, so the pay was very poor. It just wasn’t worth the toll the workload took on my health. I spent some years trying to offset the indoctrination process in the schools and teaching students to think and develop good skills. I think I helped a few. It’s a tough slog when so many administrators and parents enable laziness and cheating. We are involved with Scouting, so we still have the opportunity to teach young people. Our Scouts are there because they want to be, and they usually learn with enthusiasm.