Posted on 04/19/2015 5:54:30 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Higher education professionals are dismayed at the growing number of students who expect their universities to protect their tender emotions from over-stimulation.
If you graduated from college in the previous millennium, you may be unaware that many students now believe that college professors and administrators should protect them from, rather than expose them to, ideas they disagree with, especially ideas that disturb them.
Much of the recent debate over the current state of college campuses was spurred by Judith Shulevitz's March 21 op-ed in The New York Times, "In College and Hiding From Scary Ideas."
The Brown University campus, Shulevitz wrote, provided a "safe space" during a debate about campus rape, which was a room "equipped with cookies, coloring books, bubbles, Play-Doh, calming music, pillows, blankets and a video of frolicking puppies ..."
While high school graduates were once considered adults, college students are now treated like kindergartners.
In a February article for Slate, a liberal publication, Eric Posner defends the recent rash of speech code and "trigger warnings" on college campuses that mostly target conservatives and libertarians, but occasionally catch liberals. The reason colleges should protect students from being exposed to alternative ideas, Posner wrote, is that college students are children and "must be protected like children."
At the University of Michigan, students objected to the film "American Sniper" on campus, so the administration initially scrapped it in favor of "Paddington," a PG-rated film adapted from a children's book about an anthropomorphized teddy bear. This prompted one conservative commentator to complain that the campus was turned into "bubble-wrapped ball pits — daycare for crybabies."
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Progressives: No longer cradle to grave but cradle to cradle.
They forgot THE most important item...nappy time.
and pacifiers
Corrected.
“You can act like a man”-Vito Corleone, The Godfather (1972).
I think that our “institutions of higher learning” want to turn out two types of people: those who are privileged (well connected) and will join the oligarchy and those who are to serve as willing serfs.
Grow the F up!
Are you sure it isn't because alternative ideas interfere with commie indoctrination Eric?
No, they need to be protected from cookies. :( Cookies are bad!
Study: Oreo Cookies As Addictive As Cocaine
USDA releases new school snack standards: Doughnuts, cookies out
Westford Students Told To Leave The Christmas Cookies At Home
Everyone regresses from time to time
The high schoolers here, by the time they’re seniors, are just like preschoolers just big, at the same time that they have 30 pages of king Lear to annotate, two chapters If calculus to decipher, A Latin essay, biology exam to study for and four AP exams to prep for
That’s while they’re sorting out researching and applying for loans scholarships and grants, while discovering the hypo racy in that there are very few grants and scholarships for non Latinos racism is somehow limited to white college age kids
Academics know this and tegu move in for brainwashing
People will do very well to let the kids sort out the social issues and to prepare them instead for all the brainwashing
We are doomed!!!
FreeRepublic thread by someone trying to start a My Little Pony fan club on FR
Diapers for college students... Pampers size 10.
Lol that scene always played in my head when I was in high school and living on my own in college.
The way they’ve been pushing academics on kindergarteners waaay before they’re developmentally ready, I can see why they need the naps and blankies and playtime in college. Piaget absolutely knew what he was talking about.
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