The Coddling of the American Mind:-Paperback -by Greg Lukianoff , Jonathan Haidt

Publisher : Penguin Books (August 20, 2019)
Language : English
Paperback : 352 pages
ISBN-10 : 0735224919
Item Weight : 500 g
Dimensions : 5.45 x 0.73 x 8.45 inches

s, both of whom are liberal academics?almost a tautology on today?s campuses?do a great job of showing how ?safetyism? is cramping young minds. Students are treated like candles, which can be extinguished by a puff of wind. The goal of a Socratic education should be to turn them into fires, which thrive on the wind. Instead, they are sheltered from anything that could cause offence . . . Their advice is sound. Their book is excellent. Liberal parents, in particular, should read it.? ? Edward Luce, Financial Times ?Their distinctive contribution to the higher-education debate is to meet safetyism on its own, psychological turf . . . Lukianoff and Haidt tell us that safetyism undermines the freedom of inquiry and speech that are indispensable to universities.? ? Jonathan Marks, Commentary