Midterm exams are in full swing on university campuses right now, and the students are sleepless and stressed. I feel sorry for them. They’re enduring so much pressure, with several essays due and exams to write, all in the same few days.
These students don’t seem to occupy the same world that Ken Coates, former dean of arts at University of Waterloo, describes in the provocative book he co-wrote, Campus Confidential: 100 startling things you don’t know about Canadian Universities.
The authors say university students today are spoiled, immature, lazy and not interested in idealism or book learning. “It’s a massive sense of entitlement,” Coates told me.