Branford Marsalis’ Take on Students Today

Re:Branford Marsalis’ Take on Students Today by bd on Thursday January 01, 2009 @11:17AM (#416454)

I wonder if at least part of this phenomena cannot be explained by observer bias.

People complaining about their students are usually the ones with superior performance compared to the average student. Usually, top students become graduate students, top graduate students become professors. They are also more likely to have friends like them.

Couldn't it be that complainers were simply not aware of the extent of how bad students really were in their "good old times"?

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Re:Branford Marsalis’ Take on Students Today by orib on Thursday January 01, 2009 @03:25PM (#416642)

Or maybe they were aware of it in the good old times too, and they think it was crap then too?

I have no patience for working on lame assignments, and my marks suffer, but I still have no patience for people who are in school hoping to coast through. If you don't challenge yourself, you're wasting everyone's time.

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