In this week’s Pope Center Clarion Call, I take a look at the recent report on the entitlement mentality that has become so widespread among young Americans.

The notion that simply having tried ought to suffice for a good grade was around back in the ’80s when I was teaching, but evidently it has grown enormously. I suspect that the main reason is the education-school “best practice” of doing everything to boost a student’s self-esteem.

Grade inflation is a bad consequence of this mentality, but worse is the childish and unreasonable attitude that students often take into the real world, where the need to produce results is paramount.