HI.Everyone.The following is from Crisis in the Academy: Rethinking Higher Education in America by Christopher J. Lucas @1996
All the while, children give birth to children, youngsters show up at school toting handguns, drug dealers ply their trade at recess, and gangs of pre-adolescent thugs terrorize the playgrounds. Out in suburbia and rural America, things are reportedly quieter, but it is a placidity born of nonachievement and intellectual drift. Prescriptions for school reform vary, though they all tend to reflect a broad conviction that the present system shows unmistakable signs of decay.
I wonder what is "intellectual drift", could you give me an explanation and give me an example?
All the while, children give birth to children, youngsters show up at school toting handguns, drug dealers ply their trade at recess, and gangs of pre-adolescent thugs terrorize the playgrounds. Out in suburbia and rural America, things are reportedly quieter, but it is a placidity born of nonachievement and intellectual drift. Prescriptions for school reform vary, though they all tend to reflect a broad conviction that the present system shows unmistakable signs of decay.
I wonder what is "intellectual drift", could you give me an explanation and give me an example?