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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Most"? yes, most college students are attending class and interested in learning.
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Most are interested in getting a degree.  At some schools, many are concerned about maintaining a good GPA.  Kids who are actually interested in learning per se are rare.  It's shocking, for example, how little of the reading gets done.  My Freshman Year  (in which an anthro prof goes undercover to do fieldwork on undergrad culture) is an interesting read on this topic.  And while some might be tempted to write off her state school as unrepresentative, having taught for years at two top 20 private Universities, I can tell you that elite schools aren't that different wrt the whole love of learning thing.[/quote]

Yes, I agree with this. There is a difference between being smart and being intellectual. DS1 is very interested in learning; he complained in high school that most of his peers in AP classes weren't actually interested in the material, they just were interested in taking AP classes and getting good grades. (And DS1 was one of those kids sometimes--he did not have a love of learning chemistry, e.g. Of course, that's why he opted not to take AP chemistry, lol.) And most of these kids were very bright, hard-working students who have gone on to good colleges.

This is the main reason why I wanted DS to go to a small college where professors are focused primarily on teaching and he would have plenty of opportunity to get to know them. And this has exactly what has happened--DS is one of those students who stays behind after class to ask questions, etc., and he's gotten to know several of his professors very well. There are more kids like him in college than there were in high school, but as PP above notes, there are still plenty of kids in college who just want to do well and get a degree and who aren't that interested in discussing issues/problems outside of class.[/quote]

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