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All this is meant to make students “safe.” In fact, it leaves them fatally exposed. It emboldens offense-takers, promotes doublethink, coddles ignorance. It gets in the way of the muscular exchange of honest views in the service of seeking truth. Above all, it deprives the young of the training for independent mindedness that schools like Yale are supposed to provide.
I could not agree more. And, it makes me ill. Why attend an institution of higher learning if you can't tolerate excellence? These students are being cheated of a good education. The experience of mastery is one of the most worthwhile things a human being can pursue. Their loss.
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fear is the thief of dreams