The Chinese students are truly reticent, but their minds are wor

Unlike those mindless American students who are always ready to engage in incessant chitchat (even if they have not read the assignments). Frequently I have to refrain from asking them to shut up in my class and think before they speak. Yes, there are stupid questions just like there are stupid answers.

As for American students' writing ability, tell me how many American college students can tell the difference between effect and affect, their and there, its and it's. Dr. Higgins in "My Fair Lady" is correct: English has not been spoken (or written) in America for many years.

Shockingly ignorant, jarringly talkative, blithely mindless, intellectually depressing, and boisterously self-important - these are just a few words that come to mind if you ask me to describe what a typical American college student is. And yes, most of them are lazy, too. Intellectually and physically.

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• 你說的美國學生的這個現象的確存在，但是有些言過其實了。美國學生中智力超群、能力出色的非常多，要看不同的學校、專業、地域等等。另外 -花老虎- ♀ (144 bytes) () 08/07/2014 postreply 19:32:01

• I am talking about Harvard. Other schools are perhaps worse. -chairmanmiao- ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/07/2014 postreply 22:10:16

• wow, If Harvard students are what you described here, -黃玫瑰888- ♀ (98 bytes) () 08/08/2014 postreply 14:57:49

• When do we start taking verbal effervence if not verbal diarhea -chairmanmiao- ♂ (819 bytes) () 08/08/2014 postreply 17:59:34

• 為討論而討論， 討論缺乏sincerity, 更不要批改他們的報告是如何的頭痛。需要有知識的沉澱， 腦子裏有內涵， 討論的東西才 -blush?- ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/07/2014 postreply 19:48:56

• Where are you teaching, may I ask? -ZoyaWashington- ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/09/2014 postreply 22:56:35