Never Underestimate Students

There's a trend among universities, especially third rate ones, which belittles students' abilities. Administrators of such universities encourage professors to not let students have a "hard time."

They said that today's students are not as smart as the early generations because they're not as disciplined. Technology made them lazy. There's a lot of diversions nowadays so they have little focus.

To address this problem they tell professors not to make students' lives difficult by not giving heavy course requirements. Examinations should be "easy recall" types so students won't have a hard time.

This attitude seriously undermines todays students. They may not have much focus and discipline but they're very creative and resourceful. Thanks to modern media they have innovative ideas how to do things.


I believe the task of schools these days is to train students to focus their creativity towards productive endeavors. Administrators should not handle modern students with kid gloves. They're adults after all and adults learn best through experience and usually through the hard way.


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Illustrations Cited:

http://www.jonschallert.com/seminar_descriptions/default.asp

http://www.hyeline.com/creative.htm