Elite colleges where students can't cope with strain of reading an entire book: 'My jaw dropped'

Daily Mail UK ^ | October 5, 2024 | Sonya Gugliara

[MinorityRepublican]

I’m sure these “elite” students have read “The communist manifesto” and “Das Kapital”.

Only if there's a video about it on TikTok.

[Larry Lucido]

Now you can just get books on tape.

[Da Coyote]

The new “fight song” for all our ...er...”eleet” kolleges:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCQ0CUXjADQ

[PLMerite]

“...In my environmental literature classes...”

I think I see some of the problem right there.

[dfwgator]

Reading’s for fags.

[Gene Eric]

+1

[Honorary Serb]

At MIT, we read the whole Odyssey (in English translation)! No excerpts, no cassette tapes! And I went there before the cellphone era.

My Humanities courses at MIT also taught me how to write. I didn’t find out how lousy my high school writing was until I went through these MIT courses. The writing I learned carried over into my science courses, all the way to my PhD thesis.

As for TikTok, it should be banned. If elected, Trump will do it!

[PIF]

Later on, in some job, they will not have the attention span to finish it.

[Carry_Okie]

It is not that students are illiterate, they say, but rather that youngsters are not used to ploughing through lengthy texts and struggle to focus for long periods of time - often due to the distraction of social media.

It starts the moment parents or daycare "professionals" put a baby in front of a TV screen. Just the rate at which scenery changes in children's television is enough to cause this problem.

[PIF]

Assign the whole book, then test them on it. If they fail, then fail them. Fail them all if necessary, until they figure it out.

[eyeamok]

they have been forced to reduce reading assignments and lower their expectations

In other words, NONE of these children belong in higher education and should start over from the 7th grade.

[monkeyshine]

See spot run. Run spot, run. Run to Dick and Jane.

[Chickensoup]

This os why I am installing a home phone. I am tired of dragging my phone around and getting sucked in

[Rastus]

Maybe she read Catcher in the Rye and just snapped.

[monkeyshine]

The world needs more ditch diggers and bartenders.

[sphinx]

TikTok addicts are already close to being the blue-pilled cubicle people in The Matrix.

These are the useful idiot foot soldiers of the radical fringe in the culture wars. They believe everyone is entitled to his own “reality,” and their “reality” is curated by social media. They are infuriated with the real world because it is not as malleable as the digitally-based narratives with which they spend most of their time.

[mewzilla]

Less about attention span, more about self-discipline.

[just me]

Remember the safe places when Trump won the presidency?
They couldn’t handle sidewalk chalk.

[Vaduz]

Kids today can’t even do that?

Ever see a stoner try and read a book or try to memorize a cassette.

Talk about no attention span indeed.

[Bernard]

Is this because of the diversity in the enrollment process. so "elite colleges" no longer have elite students? Or has the elite student population declined?

One solution would be shorter books, like that one on Jewish sports legends that the stewardess in "Airplane" was passing out to passengers.