No discipline is ever requisite to force attendance upon lectures which are really worth the attending, as is well known wherever any such lectures are given. There is not, in education today, any deep and pervasive desire for knowledge. Finally, there is the raw desire to avoid gratifying Them . Dr. McArthur explains that They are often internalized parent figures. These young people have a private moving picture screen in their heads that plays a continuous feature, but the projector is out of focus.
Academic pressure is real.
The reason Dr. McArthur didn t notice it is because he was writing just at the historical moment in American higher education when the gentleman s C began to disappear. But between 1963 and 1978 the number of applicants to the nation s 165 accredited law schools more than doubled. . . . By 1980 an estimated 200,000 college graduates were expected to be vying for the some 48,000 first-year slots, and the squeeze would be worse at the elite universities. With each decade in recent years, the social pyramid has become steeper and the cut-off much further up on the educational ladder. Their importance has increased accordingly.