Jeanette's Reviews > The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

Clear and succinct explanations and observable outcomes for the "oversee" of safety practices in American education.

All three untruths can be easily heard and observed in various fields of teaching and higher education environments especially. I have observed them to an increased extent even within my Roman Catholic university employer environments.

The last untruth about worldview or ideas being either good/evil is becoming so endemic and evident, not only in education, but in the media language of nearly all bents that I myself, I've become discouraged to the true vitality of proper debate or discussion any longer. What role models too? Only role modeling for closed minded and grim / self-satisfied superiority to judgments of "evil" seem to have become predominant and visible.

Like anything physical, any muscle or system- if it is not used and tested it goes from weak to weaker. Human endurance and strength toward wide avenues of ideas are no different. This book illuminates the 3 tenets of "safety" practices. And what has been the results measured and oftentimes observable.

Protection and safety are not harbors for growth. This book will illuminate why that is and what can be measured since safety places and identity politics self-identity mantras have dominated environments of "learning". This book defines what has happened and what is observable. And what we see in "reactions" to attacks on free speech in the last decade.

I could not believe the reaction of DePaul University when Ben Shapiro came to do a speech and question/ answer session in Chicago. (They caved to the mob anger reactions and didn't let him or any of his aides set foot on campus with VISIBLE police/ campus security presence to keep him off. He ended up doing the session at an off campus last minute space rental. I saw the Dean tell him that he would be "arrested" if he set a foot on the campus. IN AMERICA!!) And how that administration then censored and allowed the terrible behaviors against free speech to continue, even afterwards in physical and property damage tirades- like babies having a tantrum. In the USA, this lack of regard for the 1st Amendment is disgusting. And it hurts the "protected" the most.

These tantrums are becoming multiple, multiple. Some of them with anarchy destruction and vile garbage affronts as in the Berkeley repeats. Always negating the 1st amendment base American Constitution premise beyond the human "failure" of their violent property or assault crimes.

Yes, failure will be the result of swallowing those 3 listed untruths. Especially the last one which composites inherently that every one with different "eyes" or avenues to address a solution differently than the "approved" line is not opposed or different but just "evil" on the good/bad scales of "group think allowances".

Three ideas (fallacies that are also being role modeled as well) that have been woven into our "protecting" American minds:

1. What doesn't kill you, makes you WEAKER.

2. Always trust your feelings.

3. Life is a battle between good people and evil people.

Safetyism is pitiable, IMHO. Political correctness "group think" judgments a major component and a symptom. This book will detail all the social trends in establishing safetyism throughout youth, childhood etc. in various social and community environments, beyond just the bureaucracies of schooling.