From: The Wall Street Journal
Our Weak, Fragile Millennials
The Wall Street Journal:
From a conversation between John Leo, editor of Minding the Campus, and New York University social psychologist Jonathan Haidt about the turmoil in higher education, published online Feb. 3:
John Leo: What happens to the academy now? You used the word “die.” Is it dead or dying? Most academics think it’s just aflutter. They seem to have no idea that something important happened at Yale.
Jonathan Haidt: The big thing that really worries me—the reason why I think things are going to get much, much worse—is that one of the causal factors here is the change in child-rearing that happened in America in the 1980s. With the rise in crime, amplified by the rise of cable TV, we saw much more protective, fearful parenting. Children since the 1980s have been raised very differently—protected as fragile. The key psychological idea, which should be mentioned in everything written about this, is Nassim Taleb’s concept of anti-fragility.
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