It is wrong to assume that students or instructors are completely at fault for the decline in quality college education.Peter Sacks, a former journalist and college professor, claims in his piece Generation X Goes to College that college students are unmotivated and believe they are entitled to passing grades solely because they’re paying substantial amounts to attend school. Sacks contributes poor college education to the hyper consumerist culture in today’s society, and insists it promotes the mentality that “you get what you pay for, regardless of what you put into the deal”(156).Unlike Sacks ,Gerald Graff argues that the main reason students aren’t doing well has to do with the way professors are teaching. He goes onto say that academic
