Carleton University - Raven Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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The standards of our mass consumption society are also reflected in the academic community. Professors are cast into the role of producers of knowledge, students into that of consumers, and not always very conspicuous consumers at that. The student's passive consumer role is not only enacted in the daily theatricals on campus, commonly referred to as lectures, but it even extends to those areas, such as writing research papers, where by definition he ought to function as a producer of ideas. But here, too, the student is merely a consumer of topics, reading lists, and outlines which are prescribed by his instructor. The academic course Calendar becomes a Simpson-Sears catalogue lminus picturesl applying the hard-sell techniques for ready-made goods. In complying with this entirely passive role, students are not so much responding to any real conviction that this constitutes the best means for their intellectual development as engaging in an authoritative ritual in order to appease the angry gods of a badly understood system. David Riesman quite accurately compares this behaviour to the Pueblo Indians' rain-making dance, only that the students have less confidence that ,their prayers will be heard. -9 23

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