"No Books Please; We're Student
Summary of John Leo’s “No Books, Please; we’re students”
“Current college students are more easily bored and considerably less willing to work hard,” states John Leo. However, Leo give the students the benefit of the doubt, saying, two factors that cause students to become disengaged in their study are jobs and family responsibilities Nevertheless, Leo believes that current students are becoming more disengaged from the academic experience. Leo supports his opinion by using the latest survey put out by UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute; a paper written by a chemistry professor, Henry Bauer of Virginia Tech; and a book called Generation X Goes to College, written by “Peter Sacks.”
Leo’s first source of support is UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute. According to the latest (1995) UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute’s survey of college freshmen put out each year, only 35% of students report that they spent six or more hours a week doing homework or studying......
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