{"id":714,"date":"2008-11-04T00:07:13","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T05:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/2008\/11\/04\/chris-blattmans-blog-is-college-the-new-high-school\/"},"modified":"2008-11-04T00:07:13","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T05:07:13","slug":"chris-blattmans-blog-is-college-the-new-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/11\/04\/chris-blattmans-blog-is-college-the-new-high-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Blattman's Blog: Is college the new high school?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Forgive me for the old they don’t make em like they used to rirades but they actually don’t.<\/p>\n

Is college the new high school<\/a>?
\nA liberal arts<\/a> English<\/a> professor writing in Inside Higher Ed:
\nAfter too many years at this job (I am in my mid-40s), I have grown to question higher education<\/a> in ways that cannot be rectified by a new syllabus, or a sabbatical, or, heaven forbid, a conference roundtable. No, my troubles with this treasured profession are both broad and deep, and they begin with a fervent belief that most of today\u2019s college students, especially those that come to college straight from high school, are unnecessarily coddled. Professors and administrators seek to \u201cnurture\u201d and \u201cengage\u201d and they are doing so at the expense of teaching. The result: a discernable and precipitous decline in the quality of college students. More of them come to campus with dreadful study habits. Too few of them read for pleasure. Too many drink and smoke excessively. They are terribly ill-prepared for four years of hard work, and most dangerously, they do not think that college should be arduous. Instead they perceive college as an overnight recreation center in which they exercise, eat, and in between playing extracurricular sports, they carry books around. If a professor is lucky, the books are being skimmed hours before class.
\nVia MR.
\nChris Blattman’s Blog: Is college the new high school?<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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