It really depends Cam. When I was working on my PhD at a public University I did see it in a few groups, the star athletics students and the rich students. They definitely had a sense of entitlement. Those who were paying for it by a mix of scholarships, student loans and work-studies by and large didn't appear have a sense of entitlement from what I remember. There were very very few students who paid for everything themselves or the parents paid for it. Those students (all 2 or 3 of them that I had contact with) were the hardest working of the lot.
I got my master's degree at a private women's university in southern Virginia. The graduate programs were co-ed (worked out great for the single male grad students btw). Since it was a private Southern college the families of many of the students were quite rich. The sense of privilege from these students was palpable. They really had a major attitude that since Daddy was rich I ought to get what I want. The attitude of the scholarship students was very different. One event I remember in particular when I was in the student lounge - this one girl was extremely upset - she wanted to go to Hawaii for spring break. Her parents had the temerity to say she had to go with them to tour the Greek Islands. The horrors. On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Eric Roberts > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I think that is more of an attitude of the rich rather than a result of free >> college. > > I think it's a sense of entitlement. Anyone who gets everything for > free all the time is going to feel entitled to continue doing no work > and getting free stuff. You see this with rich kids alot because they > get alot of shit for free. You'e less likely to see it in a parent > who's earning that money. > > You also see it at other economic levels. The welfare recipient who > has no motivation to work because they get everything handed to them > is an example at the other end of the spectrum. There are many other > examples in between. > > I'm not saying everyone should do any one thing - free school, pay for > school, whatever. I am saying that certain people who get a free > education tend to take it for granted - and that's not just a rich kid > problem. > > -Cameron > > ... > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:347685 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
