Haidt is also co-author of the extremely relevant, data-rich, and well-researched book "The Coddling of the American Mind", which is definitely worth every modern human's time/money/attention. In the book he and co-author Greg Lukianoff discuss and provide numerous examples of how modern universities are promoting "three great untruths", namely:
1.You must strive to avoid bad experiences at all costs.
2.You must always trust your emotions over reason.
3.The world is a black-and-white battle between good people and bad people; there is no middle ground.
The content of that book made me feel some very visceral contempt (which I realize is not good for ME) tfor the administrators/university bureaucrats that are basically poisoning/corrupting tens of millions of minds every year*.
*I wasn't sure how many people are enrolled in post-secondary educational institutions around the world so I asked chatGPT and it's response was:
me: approximately how many humans are enrolled in college or university in any given year
chatGPT: As of recent data, there are typically over 19 million students enrolled in degree-granting postsecondary institutions in the United States alone. Globally, the number of students enrolled in colleges and universities is much larger, estimated to be in the hundreds of millions. These numbers can vary slightly from year to year due to factors like population growth, economic conditions, and educational policies.
1.You must strive to avoid bad experiences at all costs.
2.You must always trust your emotions over reason.
3.The world is a black-and-white battle between good people and bad people; there is no middle ground.
The content of that book made me feel some very visceral contempt (which I realize is not good for ME) tfor the administrators/university bureaucrats that are basically poisoning/corrupting tens of millions of minds every year*.
https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/the-coddling...
https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Coddling-of-the-American-Mind...
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*I wasn't sure how many people are enrolled in post-secondary educational institutions around the world so I asked chatGPT and it's response was:
me: approximately how many humans are enrolled in college or university in any given year
chatGPT: As of recent data, there are typically over 19 million students enrolled in degree-granting postsecondary institutions in the United States alone. Globally, the number of students enrolled in colleges and universities is much larger, estimated to be in the hundreds of millions. These numbers can vary slightly from year to year due to factors like population growth, economic conditions, and educational policies.