Yes, College Students Can’t Read Good

Yes, College Students Can’t Read Good

Library at Dartmouth College, 2017. (Education Images/Universal Images Group.)Many professors, in these pages and elsewhere, have declared that students are not reading books anymore. An oft-cited article by Rose Horowitch in The Atlantic reads as a humanist horror story. One professor declares, “I don’t do the whole Iliad. I assign books of The Iliad … It’s not like I can say, ‘Okay, over the next three weeks, I expect you to read The Iliad,’ b…