‘Coddled’ students and their ‘safe spaces’ aren’t the problem, college official says. Bigots are. – The Washington Post

 

To be sure, the real world is full of anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism and racism. The question is: Do we prepare students to accept the world as it is, or do we prepare them to change it? Telling students either explicitly or implicitly that they should grin and bear it is the last thing one should do as an educator. Yet that is essentially the gospel that the “wait until the real world” parishioners would have many of us adopt.

Source: ‘Coddled’ students and their ‘safe spaces’ aren’t the problem, college official says. Bigots are. – The Washington Post

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