Weather has been too good to be wasted with blogs, until today. From a post about the functionally illiterate college student (via 'Poloniusmonk', there are a host of subsequent hyperlinks about modern cheats, crisis of humanities, "dysfunctional technology" (nice!). Enjoy the reads; recommended...
Nothing to add to what has been said, other than confirmation from this classroom observer (not much teaching done this last term, sorry). There is a simple inability at sustained concentration to study, amongst the masses. The intelligent ones, as ever, will simply continue their self-motivated ability to navigate through the mess around them