The article “The Coddling of the American Mind”, co authored by Greg Lukianoff, was broadcasted on The Atlantic in September of 2015 due to its truth behind the sensitivity of college students and how it affects their mentality. Ultimately, Lukianoff wants the reader to know that coddling the mind of a college student results in mental and social health issues as well as political and environmental issues.
These problems clash to produce a chaotic stream of students unable to open their minds to the real world, as they create their own safe haven to protect themselves from what they don't want to learn.
In his writing, he address the fact that the overprotectiveness of a college student's mind blinds the individual from the reality they live in, which limits them to live and develop properly as a young adult. In one example, he says that “Students with PTSD should of course get treatment, but they should not try to avoid normal life, with its many opportunities for habituation...And they’d better get their habituation done in college, because the world beyond college will be far less willing to accommodate requests for trigger warnings and opt-outs.” With that being said, the only way to adjust from something, is to learn and move on the best way that they can, to face the deformities …show more content…
They give more support and protectiveness to students than what they should do. He adds that “... students at universities across the country have begun demanding that their professors issue warnings before covering material that might evoke a negative emotional response.” which shows that under the power of adults, college students can get their way to have things easier done for their part. For some classes, such as criminal justice, it’s crucial to know the material that evoke trigger warnings since issues like the sort are cased all around the world, whether they like it or
These problems clash to produce a chaotic stream of students unable to open their minds to the real world, as they create their own safe haven to protect themselves from what they don't want to learn.
In his writing, he address the fact that the overprotectiveness of a college student's mind blinds the individual from the reality they live in, which limits them to live and develop properly as a young adult. In one example, he says that “Students with PTSD should of course get treatment, but they should not try to avoid normal life, with its many opportunities for habituation...And they’d better get their habituation done in college, because the world beyond college will be far less willing to accommodate requests for trigger warnings and opt-outs.” With that being said, the only way to adjust from something, is to learn and move on the best way that they can, to face the deformities …show more content…
They give more support and protectiveness to students than what they should do. He adds that “... students at universities across the country have begun demanding that their professors issue warnings before covering material that might evoke a negative emotional response.” which shows that under the power of adults, college students can get their way to have things easier done for their part. For some classes, such as criminal justice, it’s crucial to know the material that evoke trigger warnings since issues like the sort are cased all around the world, whether they like it or