Today’s college aged Americans are probably the first generation in American history that knows less about important consequential things than their parents or grandparents. This was reconfirmed recently in a new study commissioned by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA). It hired an organization, College Pulse, that surveyed over 3,000 current American college students from a large number of different schools.
There is an arrogance about the contemporary era that causes much malaise.
The results show that collegiate Americans today are extremely knowledgeable about relatively trivial matters of transitory interest, but rather clueless about important events, laws, and personalities related to our history and civic institutions.(READ MORE from Richard K. Vedder: Grade Inflation and Campus Protests)
For example, responding to four-answer multiple choice questions, an overwhelming majority know that Jay-Z…
