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Tuesday, May 16, 2006
College Students are “Intellectually Handicapped”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Bleh, I’m sick today with a cold/sore throat that’s going around…At least I got to catch up on some reading.
In this op-ed, a Louisiana writer and mother writes:
“But all the frenzy over college admissions obscures something a lot more troubling: namely, that today’s high school graduates are more poorly equipped for college than students of previous generations, and the reason is simple: they don’t read. It’s not that they can’t read, mind you — Americans on the whole are the most literate society on the face of the earth, with illiteracy rates steadily dropping.
But today’s students — like their elders — are in the grip of what I call post-literacy. True, they have board scores that would make Einstein weep with envy, varsity letters, and experience digging drainage ditches in the Third World — not to mention perfect grades and teeth — but without having put in the time snuggling up with a good book, they’re intellectually handicapped.”
Agree? Disagree?
