Art Kendall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> There is no doubt that the average college student is not up to the > average student 50 years ago. There are at least two things > contributing to this. One is selective memory and retention. Things are > not like they used to be and they never were. Remember how our > generation had to walk miles to school in hip deep snow, uphill both > ways? There are cunieform writing from the time of the Sumerians > decrying that failures of the the then current younger generation. The other, of course, being that the students of 50 years ago were a much more selected group than the students of today. And that's for purely economic reasons. 50 years ago, it was possible to make quite a decent living without much education. . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
