The Coddling Mind Omissions
I recently finished the much talked about book The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. Although I found the book engaging, interesting, and enlightening, I was left with nagging feeling that their analysis of the increasing mental fragility of academia and its inhabitants was incomplete. Lukianoff and Haidt claim that much of the tomfoolery at the university is a result of what the term the three "Great Untruths" (you will have to read the book to find out what those are). There is some truth in their "untruth" rationale. However, that analysis is lacking some three key concepts The first is that most of the college going youths have spent their lives in educational institutions that indoctrinated them with a certain progressive perspective. Much of the curriculum in schools these days contain implicit an explicit Marxist ideas and philosophies. Before some of you roll your eyes and say, "Here we go with the socialism, ...