Back in the day, we all used cliff notes.
Posted on 10/05/2024 11:02:40 AM PDT by Morgana
Kids today can't even do that?
No, sadly.
Very sad situation.
When I went to MIT, I read entire books, especially for my Humanities courses! I got an A in every one of these courses!
Later, I wrote a book-length original-research PhD thesis for my degree from Harvard!
Gen Z has it much too soft! No wonder all too many of them support the Dims and demonstrate against Israel! Shame!
My guess is there are functionally illiterate college graduates from the formerly just fine lesser colleges, such as the one I attended.
Too much screen time has rewired kid’s brains and destroyed their attention span and ability to reason and imagine.
I wonder if frustration over being totally unprepared for college work is what drove that black female student to stab a fellow student last week at ASU.
“She told the outlet: ‘I don’t do the whole Illiad. I assign books of The Illiad. I hope that some of them will read the whole thing.“
Remember when we used to boot people who couldn’t shoulder the load. You know, do the work. Absorb what must be absorbed. In what subjects is all of this dumbing down happening?
When I was in the Yale PhD program in English, I took the Austen-Dickens seminar. Yep, we read all the works of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens in one semester, plus criticism and biography....and wrote three ten-page term papers.
Occasionally unaccompanied young women come into my local bar. Almost with exception they stare at their cell phones the entire time. At McDonald’s, I see groups of young people sitting at a table, all staring at their cell phones. I see them walking down the street - seemingly oblivious to their surroundings - staring at their cell phones.
Did you ever have the teacher Paul Fry while at Yale?
Perhaps these “elite” colleges should embrace the transformational power of an “F” in the course.
Oh, forgot, no grade other than “A” is permitted.
Back in the day, we all used cliff notes.
I call it the Tik Tok generation, good for only 90 seconds at a time.
Oh poor wee darlings...
I guess they also cant manage Daddy’s car and the trust fund...
Looks like the Amish may have a point after all.
Yeah but the exam was on the parts that werent included...
:)
I’m sure these “elite” students have read “The communist manifesto” and “Das Kapital”.
He must have been there when I was there, but he relatively junior at the time. The big hitters were Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, and Hillis Miller.
This is why they enter the workforce unable to compose simple, coherent sentences and whine about having to do actual work.
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