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Article: Behind the Paper Screen #47369 05/14/09 04:40 AM
Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 1,815 Dazed&Confuzed OP Member
OP Dazed&Confuzed Member Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 1,815	http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/language/20090512TDY17003.htm Quote In recent years the changing ethos of college students has become the center of attention among higher education professionals around the United States. Both anecdotal evidence and systematic studies seem to indicate that today's students, whose learning behavior puzzles university faculty and administrators, are somehow different than previous generations. The main problem is, it appears, that the current generation of college students have an overtly "consumerist" attitude toward education, and seem to have little genuine interest in intellectual life.

Re: Article: Behind the Paper Screen Dazed&Confuzed #47375 05/14/09 06:46 AM
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Floridama Member F Joined: Apr 2009 Posts: 389 Florida	Intersesting post! I will admit that had to break out the dictionary on that one.

Re: Article: Behind the Paper Screen Dazed&Confuzed #47421 05/14/09 01:15 PM
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Ellipses Member Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 407 Colorado	Originally Posted by Dazed&Confuzed http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/language/20090512TDY17003.ht Quote The main problem is, it appears, that the current generation of college students have an overtly "consumerist" attitude toward education, and seem to have little genuine interest in intellectual life. I am 49 and I hardly ever find any adults my age interested in intellectual life. I find very little stimulating conversation anywhere. If we do, we are strange.

Re: Article: Behind the Paper Screen Ellipses #47460 05/14/09 07:41 PM
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BKD Member B Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 137 Australia	Only two major social forces? We've let children be raised on increasingly sophisticated, aggressive advertising for decades - wouldn't it be strange if Gen Y didn't have a self-focussed consumerist attitude?

Re: Article: Behind the Paper Screen BKD #47461 05/14/09 07:53 PM
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inky Member I Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 1,299	Amen BKD!! Have you seen the movie Consuming Kids? If not, here is the web site: http://www.consumingkidsthemovie.com/ You can click on the link that says: View a Full-Length Preview Low-resolution preview

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