The Unteachables: A Generation that Cannot Learn
by JANICE FIAMENGO
May 21, 2012
"The honeymoon is over." Instructors who award low grades in humanities disciplines will likely be familiar with a phenomenon that occurs after the first essays are returned to students: former smiles vanish, hands once jubilantly raised to answer questions are now resentfully folded across chests, offended pride and sulkiness replace the careless cheer of former days. Too often, the smiles are gone for good because the customary "B+" or "A" grades have been withheld, and many students cannot forgive the insult. . . .
The emphasis on feeling good, as Neatby argued, prevents rather than encourages the real satisfactions of learning.
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