The Evolution of the Student Body

I've essentially been teaching continuously since the since the late 90s and have seen that evolution in the student body take place. So the change has been gradual so it's hard to point to moments of disruption or moments of discontinuity but there are certainly various trends. There is an element in which you get students who are sort of professional students with that comes a capacity for hard work for sort of high level of performance. With that also comes a kind of narrowness and even a kind of fragility in the sense that the students are used to succeeding and to excelling. It can feel like I my whole life now has been ruined.