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Our educational level: Spiraling downward or just shifting? “In my time we had to do so much more to get through school. This generation really has it much easier than mine!” Have you also heard your parents, an older family member, or a teacher for that matter, tell you something along the above posted lines? We all probably have. And the funny thing is that, as we grow older, many of us find ourselves saying – or at least thinking – exactly the same. But is it really that funny? And how much truth is there to this age-old statement? The other day I attended a meeting at a California university and enjoyed a presentation of two researchers, both professors at higher educational institutions, who did a survey among faculty at 3 local colleges. Their general findings were that the majority of full time faculty, as well as the senior adjunct faculty at all 3 surveyed colleges, shared the opinion that at least some of their students were unprepared. This “unpreparedness” basically entailed poor performance from students due to an array of reasons, varying from language barriers to poor math skills. Yet, the most disturbing evidence was the diminished linguistic skills from contemporary students. One of the researchers even stated that today’s high school graduates generally master a vocabulary that is several thousands of words smaller than that of a generation or so ago because the language used for teaching in school has been increasingly simplified. So, what brings about this
ostensible downward spiral? The answer: It seems to be the descending level --
or the changing focus -- of education. The critics among us may find that we are
trapped in a sliding vicious cycle. Fortunately, there is also a
positive way to look at the current trend in education: not as deterioration but
as transformation. How? Well, today’s generation masters areas in which previous
ones were completely illiterate. So, maybe there is no descent, but rather a shift in priorities, based on a transfer in needs: today’s workplaces want IT-professionals, not readers. It ’s the electronic age, and that brings along: decreased interest in books and words, and increased savvy in device handling. Something to be concerned about? Who can tell!
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