“YOU OWE ME” was the stance of a graduate student with one of my colleagues and close friends. This sense of entitlement is disturbing, and insulting, to say the least. Unfortunately, this trend covers the gamut of people from all walks of life — students, colleagues, customers and society in general.
Just because you pay for a service — or spend many years in the same place of work — does not entitle you to reverence or differential treatment. I owe my students respect, a promise to work hard and a commitment to focus on their education. I don’t owe them an “A” and I certainly don’t owe them a compromise of my academic standards.
This sense of entitlement is getting engrained in our culture. “You have to take care of me, because you have the means, and I choose not to work.” That ladies and gentlemen is how you win elections. I think we should do our share to help those less fortunate than us because we want to and because they deserve it — not because it is their birthright.
About Hemant Rustogi
It is also frightening how the number of such people is growing by the day