College Like Kindergarten? Students Need Cookies, Coloring Books, Bubbles, Play-Doh, Blankies

Christian Post ^ | April 16, 2015 | Napp Nazworth

[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."

[jaz.357]

7 years of College down the drain!

[headstamp 2]

This is just early liberal development on the road to perpetual adolescence.

Colleges have been doing it for over 40 years now. The Professors are shining examples of it.

[momtothree]

At my son’s college (during midterm and finals week), they have a “doggie” center. I guess the idea is for the kids who are under stress.. to play with dogs. Anyways, the Greyhounds slept the entire time.. the GSD wanted to play with the other dogs and ignored the humans... but the Basset Hound was all in! Loved the students immensely. If I had a dime for every time he tried to talk me into getting a Basset Hound.. I’d be rich.

[awatson72752]

seems like most of them could benefit from a healthy and repeated dose of slap therapy on an ongoing basis.

[Daffynition]

For a couple of years, I taught college students, as an adjunct. It was the most disappointing job ever.

These young adults had *NO* background in anything.

E.g., if you mentioned *the Renaissance*....they had no clue about its significance, or the general time period it embraced, or any significant people or literature/art/architecture from that period.

They had *NO* idea of world geography, or US geography for that matter.

World history was a deep, dark mystery for them.

They didn’t even have a grasp of current events.

I spent most of my class time going off in tangents, explaining basic info to them, so they would know what I was presenting. It was sad and frustrating.

[Oratam]

That whole scene is beautiful and Johnny Fontane a foreshadowing of the present-day sensitive man. The Don slaps the coddled crooner (modeled after Sinatra) and says, "Wassamattawichoo? Is this how you turned out! A Hollywood finocchio who cries like a woman? [mimicking his godson] 'Help me, Godfather. Save me, Godfather."