College Students Are Losing the Ability to Read (and think)

More food for thought (but only if you can read and think):

In a new essay for The Chronicle Higher Education, university-level literature and writing instructor Tyler Jagt recalls how not a single one of his students could get through an assigned 20-page article, something that he had read “without complaint” as an undergraduate a decade ago…“So when a student tells me they ‘kept losing track’ of a 20-page article, I have to acknowledge that they may be describing a measurable neurological condition,” Jagt wrote. “The neural pathways that support sustained attention are built by use, and they atrophy without it. Your body is a use-it-or-lose-it system, and the brain is no exception.” College Students Are Rapidly Losing the Ability to Readhttps://futurism.com/future-society/college-students-losing-ability-read

No surprise then when graduates demonstrate Alarmingly Shallow Ideas.

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