However, I rarely hear faculty claim that the pattern doesn't exist. Some faculty explain the pattern as a result of students' growing aversion to reading. Some students explain the pattern as a result of tests and exams that focus primarily on material covered in class. We keep many of those books carefully packed in cardboard cartons and move them from house to house without ever opening the cartons. We unquestioningly purchased every one of those books that any professor ever required, and now we passionate ly resist any suggestion that we abandon them.
Many modern students have no idea of assembling a personal library.
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