out-curmudgeoned!

"Many students are simply not prepared to engage in serious academic work and do not know how they are expected to behave on campus. Most of them bring a consumer mentality to school and very little concern about approval from the older generation. That their own generation was raised on oversized portions of self-esteem is part of the problem, not to speak of their massive exposure to coarse popular culture on television and the internet."

P.M. Forni, professor of Italian at Johns Hopkins, from the Fall 2008 issue of Thought and Action, the NEA Higher Education Journal.