She sees what you did there.
Posted on 04/18/2016 3:18:12 PM PDT by daisy12
University students are increasingly unable to read a whole book as they simply don’t have the concentration spans required, nor are they able to understand complex, nuanced arguments, academics have said.
Lecturers at leading British universities are having to actively encourage students to read beyond the set texts, and have noticed that students are increasingly unwilling to read whole texts. They say they believe internet culture is to blame, as young people nowadays are used to receiving arguments in the form of 800-1000 word articles. Anything beyond that, they say, is now proving too challenging.
“Incoming undergraduates have had their attention habits fashioned in a totally different world than that of those who are teaching them,” Tamson Pietsch, fellow in history at the University of Sydney told Times Higher Education (THE).
“This can lead to a clash of expectations and also of abilities on both sides of the equation. In many ways, incoming students absorb information quickly, they understand the power of images, and are adept at moving between different types of sources and platforms. They are perhaps less used to concentrating for long periods of time and working through the nuances of an argument developed over the course of many pages.”
Jenny Pickerill, professor in environmental geography at the University of Sheffield, said of full length books: “students struggle with them, saying the language or concepts are too hard.
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I agree with that! I actually think reading is a must no matter what your major. Engineers still need to be able to read and write.
Your point is moot. The founding fathers were all a bunch of white racists, so it matters not.
/sarcasm
My 7th garde teacher made us all read Pilgrims Progress. I still remember the Slough of Despond, trying to wade through that tome.
Does one memorize it ? Like "Arms and the man" ? Or does one KNOW it, by its definition?
There’s a great racket among college profs who write and publish their own textbooks and require the students to purchase them. At $100 a pop and large class sizes they are pulling in some serious money every year.
Pssssh. Reading is for sissies.
I was an expert on Greek mythology by the 6th grade.
And was a solid amateur in Norse mythology.
I took it upon myself to read GWTW.
What your teacher did was an act of cruelty.
One has to know it as the ratios. I had a drafting board in the eighth grade (this is way before anything like AutoCAD), along with a Machinery Handbook.
Well, there you are : science. The science of space, in this instance.
Thanks for the ping KC-Lion. One of my friends had the Oregon Trail game, I think in the 80s, and had told me how much he liked it. I wanna play!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail_(video_game)
Play classic game The Oregon Trail for free on your browser
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/gaming/2015/01/08/oregon-trail-internet-archive/21450885
See this documentary footage on what you could have done to get your money back
Foolin’ Around (1980)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3saLfCXuDY0
Abridged version of course.
The books in the libraries will be used by looters for cooking and warming fires.
But you do have an interesting, upper-class-Victorian vision of the Apocalypse.
Have you ever read the follow-ups to the trilogy? I’m blanking a bit on Titles (and too lazy to run downstairs and check) but the First Queen and Druid of Shannara books were pretty good, too.
I never forgot devouring “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” in the third grade.
Extremely few college graduates could even write a short book. Illiteracy is rampant among college graduates.
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