What Happened To Neusner's Frustration Toward The Students?

In this article, Neusner vents his frustration towards the students who have graduated from Brown University, denouncing them as careless, nonchalant, and lazy. Neusner pointedly states how the students at Brown were taught that giving up the easy way, but miserable failure later in life would expose them for who they really were. The speech fails to be entirely effective because several hastily drawn and misapplied generalizations directed towards the graduates and even other fellow professors. The examples he provides to support his accusations, while somewhat effective, lack sufficient scientific evidence, and are only the perceptions of Neusner’s opinion.
Neusnaer’s main argument within the article is that the graduates of Brown University have failed to work hard and put forth an effort in college. He then goes on to give examples supporting why he has formed this harsh opinion of them. In his article, he portrays all students as …show more content…
Clearly it didn’t persuade the ceremony directors either and so it was left unspoken, and I think that was for the better. I don’t believe that it was the faculty who were the victim of massively uneducated and incompetent students. No, if anything it is the students who deserve an apology from the professors who chose not to spend their time helping them. In some ways, the author makes very valid points. To the graduates, failure is a bad grade on a test. Once they received their poor results, they could easily drop the class and even get their money back. They had never before carried the true burden of failure, and that bad grade could never tarnish their reputation once they left. In some ways Professor Neusner was right when he wrote his speech about his spoiled graduates. A lack of passion is common on college campuses and runs through most student’s veins. It is all that they know because it was all they were ever