Campus clubs spring up for early birds to rouse classmates; 9 a.m. is ‘really late’
Source: In China, Sleepy University Students Experience a Wake-Up Call – WSJ
I commented.
“They should come here for college.
According to the well-researched Academically Adrift, American students only need to study about 13 hours a week, leaving lots of time to sleep – as long as they don’t have to work. In the sixties, that was 25 hours a week. We have become so much more efficient since then.
Of course, they won’t learn much here, but they will get good grades.
If they major in engineering, they can complain, along with their American cohorts, that US corporations hire too many students who studied in China; you know, those graduates whose professors required them to learn – something that takes work and can cause stress, kind of like a job does.
It sounds like I blame our students. I don’t. I blame our colleges. I know. I taught math for decades.
For just one example for why many of our engineers aren’t competitive, see A Tale Out of School on my (non-commercial) blog inside-higher-ed . Or look there for how easy it is to become an engineer at some schools.”
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