“The under-30s barely read. If it’s not a 30 second video, it has to be a very simple meme. They just don’t read.”
One of the complaints college professors have today is that many students don’t even bother to obtain the required books for courses. The sad thing is that many courses allow a student to pass the course with a ‘C’ without the books.
Reading is no longer a required component of college. Many students will admit to rarely cracking open a book during their entire degree program.
In fact, most students do not turn in homework because homework requires having and opening the books. Homework is only 10% of most grades and the students are targeting 75% to pass the class: “Cs get degrees” is the mantra. Pass all the exams by 80% and homework isn’t required to pass the class.
“many students don’t even bother to obtain the required books for courses.”
When you routinely have to pay over two hundred dollars for a book you’ll never open again after taking the course, on a subject that you’re only taking because you have to, from a professor who sometimes wrote and gets paid above tuition for the book you’re overpaying for, you have my sympathy for not buying it.