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This article smacks of "back in my day". Perhaps college students spend "just over one hour per day" studying alone because education has realized the benefit o
by chachi 11y ago
This article smacks of "back in my day". Perhaps college students spend "just over one hour per day" studying alone because education has realized the benefit of group learning, interactive education and project-based classes. In the age of Wikipedia and Google the need to memorize and study in silence, as in the monastery, has decreased substantially.
David Brooks' longing for the day when students just shut up and listened to their teachers is patronizing and ignorant.
- girvo 11y agoDid you finish the article? It seems not.
- chachi 11y agoSure, I finished it. He went on to bemoan jobless college grads, look down on "following your dreams", and tell us that letting our hopes die is normal. We'll just get over it and quit kicking things up by the time we're 30.
- madaxe_again 11y agoI think you took most of that meaning from an angry voice inside your head - not from what he wrote. Letting your hope die is "normal", but it doesn't mean that you should aim to be normal. I still want to be an astronaut and I'm 31 and working in totally the wrong field, but damnit, I'll hold that hypothetical dream. Never say never.