Kara Miller is a professor at Babson College (no idea where that is honestly) ad recently wrote an Op-Ed for the Globe about how her American students consistently underperform her international students.
Now there are a couple of points I want to make about this article
- International students studying in the United States are most likely going to be highly internally motivated students to begin with
- Not all American students are lazy across the board – however we are nationally trending towards this
I don’t bring this article to your attention to call you out individually but I wanted you to think about this as many of you will be going to college next year.
To relate it to a concept that may be more relatable to you – if you have ever worked in a restaurant there is generally a belief that young people are bad tippers. The American educational system is already regarded as the “bad tippers” of the international community (and by that I mean to say that many international people look down on American education because of situations like this and others – if you want to talk more about this come see me ha ha) and it will only get worse if your generation doesn’t decide to make this country the academic powerhouse that it used to be.
Here is the article after the jump: My Lazy American Students
