Useless degrees

Today i doubt a tutor would be able to say "that's shit. you know you haven't put any thought into it come back when you have something worthwhile to show me"
the parents would probably demand an explanation as to why their little darling was in tears.

And this is key – students have become customers, essentially. The ideal of a free-play of ideas, or of a space where you can be intellectually stimulated by proximity to discussion at the highest level about your subject, everything – all of it becomes subordinate to the commercial transaction model. They want certain things in return for their cash, and will agitate if they don't get them. Attention's one of the things they want, and fair enough. The problem comes, though, when what they want is a good mark, but they don't deserve one.