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From: Auric Hellman <adhellman1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: The Elite College Students Who Can't Read Books
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2024 23:55:01 -0400
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On 10/4/2024 11:35 AM, JAB wrote:
> The Elite College Students Who Can't Read Books
> 
> Nicholas Dames has taught Literature Humanities, Columbia University's
> required great-books course, since 1998. He loves the job, but it has
> changed. Over the past decade, students have become overwhelmed by the
> reading. College kids have never read everything they're assigned, of
> course, but this feels different. Dames's students now seem bewildered
> by the thought of finishing multiple books a semester. His colleagues
> have noticed the same problem. Many students no longer arrive at
> college--even at highly selective, elite colleges--prepared to read
> books
> 
> https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/11/the-elite-college-students-who-cant-read-books/679945/


The attitude of today's generation is "Why bother learning something 
when Siri can learn it for me?". I don't foresee that attitude changing 
anytime soon.



-- 
Dr. Auric D. Hellman
adhellman1@gmail.com