Persuasion | R Cruikshank/Hulton Archive
Things have changed. Ted Gioia describes modern students as checked-out, phone-addicted zombies. Troy Jollimore writes, “I once believed my students and I were in this together, engaged in a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated over the past few semesters.” Faculty have seen a stunning level of disconnection. Above: Oxford undergraduates on a late night drinking spree, 1824.