[Yeti]

And Pink Floyd seems to have gone downhill after "Wish You Were Here"....

Junior high? You're just a baby, a youngin', a tyke, una niña ...

What is the entire point of the article?

Hmmm... Seems to me to be that the confluence of non-academic mass attitudinal therapy and weak academic instruction has left students unprepared for higher education. What does the article mean to you?

I remember more than a decade ago seeing this kind of proud, ~ willful ignorance ~ even among honors college students.

[Freedom2specul8]

"But you and gummi seem to have devoted considerably more study to the subject"

I doubt it yeti. I quit studying it a couple of years ago. (not speaking for gummy)

"Seems to me to be that the confluence of non-academic mass attitudinal therapy and weak academic instruction has left students unprepared for higher education. What does the article mean to you?"

I think that is well put. I'm not sure what primed the parental attitudes..I guess the words free education must have been the key.