Comment by yapyap

I mean it’s a bit rough to say and generalize but as someone in college atm it does feel like a good percentage of the students could fit in (some of) the boxes the author thought of.

Now along with some people skipping college altogether and other students maybe not wanting to speak up in class for whatever reason professors may feel totally alone.

I have to say this does go both ways, of course as student I am inherently biased but there are professors that are not totally present in their lessons, don’t know their material, etc. Now I haven’t been a student for decades do this may not have changed at all or is just a tangential part of my comment.

Also if I had to ‘guess’ the reason students are going backwards, it’s phones, it’s social media, it’s a lack of third places, it’s the quick and fast content on social media. That’s also the reason reading has been on a rather downwards trend.

And all our ‘creature comforts’ / being lazy also ‘rots’ your brain. As in IF you start using AI tools for coding it starts being so integral you can barely do without, same for AI for reading and even like how using a calculator makes you worse at quick head math.