Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Generation X Goes to College

From the reviews: The author believes that most students have the consumerist attitude that because they're the ones paying, it is the teacher's responsibility to teach them, not their responsibility to learn. I would put it a little differently. The overwhelming majority of my students were quite indifferent to whether they learned anything. Their consumerist attitude wasn't so much about trading money for learning as it was trading effort for grades. You don't say.

All opinions are equal, after all, and their opinions are just as "true for them" as yours are "true for you." Apparently it's better that students be socialized to be thin-skinned ignoramuses than that they have "Western logic" and "linear thinking" imposed on them. We are all Pepe now!

1 comment:

Mr roT said...

Wow! This is ideal-land! Trading effort for grades? I thought it was trading tuition for grades.