Back in the day, we all used cliff notes.
Kids today can't even do that?
No, sadly.
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.
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.
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...
I’m sure these “elite” students have read “The communist manifesto” and “Das Kapital”.
This is why they enter the workforce unable to compose simple, coherent sentences and whine about having to do actual work.
The new “fight song” for all our ...er...”eleet” kolleges:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCQ0CUXjADQ
“...In my environmental literature classes...”
I think I see some of the problem right there.
Reading’s for fags.
Later on, in some job, they will not have the attention span to finish it.
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.
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.