Jonathan Haidt: How Colleges are Failing Kids

While college campuses portray themselves as centers of academic achievement and innovative endeavors, Jonathan Haidt, best-selling author of The Righteous Mind, argues they are better characterized by their anxiety-inducing and depressive nature. In addition to worsening mental health, a culture of censorship and overwhelming sensitivity causes professors and students to fear speaking honestly. Haidt believes this toxic system is a product of excessive coddling reinforced by an arsenal of trigger warnings and microaggressions.
In his new book, The Coddling of the American Mind, Haidt articulates the social trends that have come together to produce this conflicting environment and its impact on posterity. Contextualizing campus conflicts with intense political polarization, ubiquitous social media and rising hate crimes, he demonstrates why people have been subscribing to a system that aims to protect its young people. Come listen to a discussion about the negative ramifications of a well-intentioned movement.

[@Milestonemonger]

As usual, the most important topics get little attention.

[@jacquesd5781]

I loved every second of this - thanks for sharing!

[@jimbarrofficial]

Great topic, I love Haidt, he's an amazing lecturer. Interesting to see how many of the parents of these troubled and over-protected kids are boomers or GenXers (like me).

[@sjbayer3]

Still such a relevant video more parents need to see

[@morpheos111]

Great talk.

[@jeremiahcohen6209]

Great conversation. Though, the praising of CBT is misleading. CBT is actually not very effective in the long-term on its own. It’s only “the best validated approach” because it’s so easy to implement studies. Depth psychological approaches have shown much better and more comprehensive positive changes over the long-term.

[@georger6624]

The world is so much better than it used to be but these kids have been coddled too much I know when they get to college they can’t handle anything

[@ericpham8205]

college is suppose to be instrument for humanity advancement but some used it as instrument to extend their own wealth through student hands

[@georger6624]

The way too soft in America because we have so much even the poor has so much we have become very soft

[@aucourant9998]

It was a bit of a letdown how he avoided answering the question about NYU.

[@steeltrap3800]

Well he could have said "serious faculties don't have this issue, it's the pretend disciplines that are churning out, and run by, lunatics". Instead he said the first part (business, engineering, medicine etc) and left out the second bit.

[@ceruchi2084]

LOL at those edits near the end. Someone forgot to change the default wipes on iMovie....

[@theurbanwolf298]

There’s sooo much red tape between departments, you’ll get discharged

[@UKnowtheThing]

This moderator seems to be part of the problem. Haidt is trying to say things, and he seems a little stand-offish and reluctant in some areas. While I do like Haidt, you really can't be a centrist if you dislike one party "intensely."

[@ceruchi2084]

That's the magic of centrism, Pragma. You can intensely dislike a _party_ while agreeing with nearly half their stated aims.

[@Dorian_sapiens]

This guy needs a new shtick. Better yet, he should go back to doing science.

[@JokerisWild4]

It's called Psychology and Social Science. This stuff actually matters and is affecting an entire generation of young people that has resulted in massively increased suicide rates, the destruction of young minds to feel attacked and harmed by ideas resulting in the self righteous callout culture that is destroying the world. Haidt's message needs to be taken seriously by literally everyone, not even just young people.

[@Dorian_sapiens]

I'm amply familiar with campus culture, and it bears little resemblance to the nightmare you, Haidt, and other moral crusaders describe. It certainly isn't "destroying the world". This is the Satanic Panic 2.0. And you know perfectly well what he's doing here isn't science; don't be fatuous.

[@JokerisWild4]

@@Dorian_sapiens you've been out of school way too long, and it isn't every school, nor is it everyone at any particular school. It is a growing trend as can be seen through DATA also known as science. Your lazy anecdotal evidence is what isn't science.

[@Dorian_sapiens]

Haidt doesn't have "DATA" demonstrating any of the causal links his argument implies. He has lazy anecdotal evidence and massive leaps from correlation to causation. This is obvious when listening with a critical rather than credulous ear, because he's honest enough to admit it when questioned by a skeptical interviewer. He and his coauthor _think_ over-parenting causes fragility, which causes psychiatric maladies and campus PC culture; but _they don't know;_ but _he's heard_ supporting anecdotes from people he knows; etc. His words. He also admits the problems he's got people all in a panic over are extremely limited in scope. Skeptical interviews show his entire position to be an elaborate motte and bailey built atop the cachet he acquired doing real science. He's another celebrity intellectual who "found a way to monetize social justice warriors".
Edit: This is what I mean by a skeptical interview: czcams.com/video/Lgt34g6vu6g/video.html

[@williamschlass4598]

@@Dorian_sapiens I think youre just engaging in sophistry to hide the fact that your religion (PC) is being indirectly attacked by the conclusions Haidt and his co author come to in his book.