Just come across your writing, and thoroughly enjoying it. On the subject of trigger warnings, I agree that being considerate is a good thing - but not doing it in a way that lets students opt out of tackling difficult stuff.
Van Jones put it best for me when talking about students and safe spaces:
Just come across your writing, and thoroughly enjoying it. On the subject of trigger warnings, I agree that being considerate is a good thing - but not doing it in a way that lets students opt out of tackling difficult stuff.
Van Jones put it best for me when talking about students and safe spaces:
"But there's another view that is now I think ascendant, which I think is just a horrible view, which is that "I need to be safe ideologically. I need to be safe emotionally. I just need to feel good all the time, and if someone says something that I don't like, that's a problem for everybody else including the administration."
I think that is a terrible idea for the following reason: I don't want you to be safe, ideologically. I don't want you to be safe, emotionally. I want you to be strong. That's different.
I'm not going to pave the jungle for you. Put on some boots, and learn how to deal with adversity. I'm not going to take all the weights out of the gym; that's the whole point of the gym. This is the gym."
Just come across your writing, and thoroughly enjoying it. On the subject of trigger warnings, I agree that being considerate is a good thing - but not doing it in a way that lets students opt out of tackling difficult stuff.
Van Jones put it best for me when talking about students and safe spaces:
"But there's another view that is now I think ascendant, which I think is just a horrible view, which is that "I need to be safe ideologically. I need to be safe emotionally. I just need to feel good all the time, and if someone says something that I don't like, that's a problem for everybody else including the administration."
I think that is a terrible idea for the following reason: I don't want you to be safe, ideologically. I don't want you to be safe, emotionally. I want you to be strong. That's different.
I'm not going to pave the jungle for you. Put on some boots, and learn how to deal with adversity. I'm not going to take all the weights out of the gym; that's the whole point of the gym. This is the gym."