The average college student today is barely literate

[Hume]

I’ve been a professor for a long time—over 30 years. If you’re not in academia, or it’s been awhile since you were in college, you might not know this: the students are not what they used to be.​

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Writing​

Their writing skills are at the 8th-grade level. Spelling is atrocious, grammar is random, and the correct use of apostrophes is cause for celebration. Worse is the resistance to original thought.

The average college student today

How things have changed

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[Hume]

What’s changed?​

The average student has seen college as basically transactional for as long as I’ve been doing this. They go through the motions and maybe learn something along the way, but it is all in service to the only conception of the good life they can imagine: a job with middle-class wages. I’ve mostly made my peace with that, do my best to give them a taste of the life of the mind, and celebrate the successes.

Things have changed. Ted Gioia describes modern students as checked-out, phone-addicted zombies. Troy Jollimore writes, “I once believed my students and I were in this together, engaged in a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated over the past few semesters.” Faculty have seen a stunning level of disconnection

 

[volsrocks]

I’ve been a professor for a long time—over 30 years. If you’re not in academia, or it’s been awhile since you were in college, you might not know this: the students are not what they used to be.​

​

Writing​

Their writing skills are at the 8th-grade level. Spelling is atrocious, grammar is random, and the correct use of apostrophes is cause for celebration. Worse is the resistance to original thought.

The average college student today

How things have changed

hilariusbookbinder.substack.com

Dept of Education is great!!


Back before the Dept of Education we were always ranked very high in the world

 

[Hume]

Dept of Education is great!!

Trump loves you uneducated dopes.

 

[volsrocks]

Trump loves you uneducated dopes.

Obama got his without the Dept of Education

 

[Hume]

Obama got his without the Dept of Education

Got his what? Please try to use English grammar.

 

[Nordberg]

Dept of Education is great!!


Back before the Dept of Education we were always

Obviously not baout that. It is about the students who are also being taught by parents like you, cell phones, movies and TV.