Jonathan Haidt: The Coddling of the American Mind

Something has been going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and are afraid to speak honestly. Rates of anxiety, depression and suicide are rising. How did this happen?
Eminent social psychologist Jonathan Haidt thinks the new problems on campus have their origins in three terrible ideas that have become increasingly woven into American childhood and education-ideas that are making it harder and harder for students to become autonomous adults who are able to navigate the bumpy road of life.
In this riveting lecture drawing from his New York Times bestselling book, Haidt will investigate the many social trends that have intersected to promote the spread of these untruths.

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I know it's 4 years later, but I don't care. Thank you thank you thank you Benson center for posting a video with audio that you can actually understand! Yea!

[@snks_65]

I think SNS is a great platform for expression of free speech, and its existence if for you to express yourself virtually in a semi-realistic dimension without disturbing others as much as you do outside, say on school campus disturbing others from concentrating on learning or on the roads creating a long line of traffic and possibly stopping ambulances or fire tracks that are too far for protestors to see.

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I'm in my 20s and my dad still doesn't let me walk alone to the store or roam around town without his supervision. If all those people whom you made an example of in your talk are really mediocre and low quality people, then what does that make me?

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You’re in your 20s. You’re not 50. I would say you’re not done growing yet (no one ever really is), and it really says more about your dad. But, that said, it’s probably a good time to assert some independence and get some life experience. Don’t feel like you need permission. You’re an adult. Just go do it. Your dad will eventually adjust. That said, I don’t know your town. If it was a slum in Chicago, I’d understand the concern. But don’t make the mistake of selectively allowing your Dad to be sheltering in other situations because of the convenience of it. Get a job, move out, get your own place. Live a little. Have bad shit happen and get over it. Life is sweeter that way.