. . . by Craig Gabriel, in commenting on Peter Sacks’s Generation X Goes to College: An Eye-Opening Account of Teaching in Postmodern America. A sample — and, and if Sacks and Gabriel are telling it as it is, may God help us:

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 . . . To put more effort into a class than you absolutely have to would be as pointless to them as paying $2 for a loaf of bread that costs $1. Learning doesn’t enter into it.
The author laments the way the TV generation students need to be constantly entertained, to have their micro attention spans indulged . . . when [students] have anything positive to say about a teacher, by far the most common term of praise you’ll hear is “funny” . . .
For many students, there is no “truth,” no one can possibly be more intelligent or more learned than anyone else, and it is ridiculous and offensive for anyone, including a teacher, to pass judgment on other people by something like giving them grades for their work.