a crisis of competence: SAVING THE HUMANITIES

[David Morris]

http://www.artsandopinion.com/2012_v11_n3/fiamengo.htm

"The majority of students in English courses today can expect a B
grade or higher merely for warming a seat and handing in assignments
on time. The result, as I soon discovered, was a generation of
students so accustomed to being praised for their work that when I
told them it was inadequate, they simply could not or would not
believe me. They seemed very nearly unteachable: lacking not only the
essential skills but also the personal gumption to respond adequately
to criticism."