Free-D

The current generation of university students are more demanding, and require much more ‘spoon feeding’ than their predecessors. That is according to the survey done by the Times Educational Supplement. The emergence of the internet is viewed as the culprit in that it makes students less active in finding out information for themselves. It all starts from school as the system of education is becoming more and more forgiving towards students, where instead of a good old punishment the little trouble maker of the class is simply pardoned and efficiently given the title of suffering from ADHD (Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder). It isn’t possible for teachers to properly teach, or children to properly learn, in a classroom constantly disrupted by juvenile snots who know their rights – especially those aware that nobody in authority will dare attempt to forcibly control them for fear of being beaten to a pulp or ending up in court with their careers put on hold or in shreds. Children can smell the fear which emanates from most teachers and, rightly so, despise them and society at large for lacking sufficient sense/resolve to put an end to their sorry state of self-inflicted humiliation.Everyone knows that children need and expect caring parents and teachers, but it does not mean that they should be left to their own will to do what they feel like and discipline must be inflicted upon them for their own wellbeing in future. Growing up to believe that nothing is one’s fault and instead of taking responsibility, blaming others for one’s short-comings will definitely not help. Between parties and classes and botellones, only a genius would have the ability to concentrate, study and pass exams. The way modern student culture is going, it even, for hardworking students, becomes impossible to study, because the choice is crucial: be a social outcast or fail exams. If a student is intelligently attentive in the class, he/she becomes the so called dork, geek, nerd or boring person, who no “COOL” kid will ever allow in their mainstream social group. However, later such “UNCOOL” kids go and achieve true goals in life, get PhDs in their chosen fieldsor become important people in the society. One would have thought that being given many opportunities to pass university exams, modern students would flourish or at least pass those “incredibly tough” exams in the third try.  It is not uncommon to hear of students who have accumulated failed first year exams which are left overhanging in their final year to be retaken for the 3rd, 4th, 5th … time. How will the tax-paying working-class expect such noble beings to graduate and do wonders for their country and community? As the competition strengthens in today’s job-market, surely these bright-lights of future instead of lighting the path towards prosperity and advancement of the nation, will become an extra burden on the shoulders of their already overworked parents. Because, most of such young and enlightened students after six years of university education suddenly realize that they had chosen the wrong subject and have to start another degree all over again. Lets all hope that our next generation of students not only learn how to party hard, the ways of new gadgets and gismos, but also learn  the responsibility to not waste their parents hard earned cash and study to prove that it wasn’t all just money down the drain.