The Students of Today

The new breed of students tend to be more passive and hedonistic than their predecessors as they live for the moment.  They have few goals, a diminished concept of history, little discipline, and almost no sense of what is noble or good.  Instead they specialize in taboo-breaking decadence and grin cynically at moral correctives.  They have learned self-esteem by being affirmed through cheap and empty slogans.  They have empty heads and hard hearts while the “self” that they have spent so much time affirming keeps changing like Proteus, forever being redefined by the “experts.” 

Tal Brooke, “Education: Capturing Hearts and Minds For A New World,” SCP Journal, Vol 16:4, p.23