25 Replies to “The Children Are Our Future”

  2. Another educationist idiocy.

    While I taught at a certain post-secondary institution, I was chastised by my department head one day. He attended one of my lectures and I referred to a certain equation as “ghastly”, mainly because of the way it was written with variables and exponents all over the place.

    I was told that I should avoid such language because “ghastly” gives that equation a negative tone and, then, students wouldn’t want to learn it. I thought my department head had flipped his wig but he was serious.

    By the way, this happened more than a generation ago, so this baloney has been around for a long time.

  3. The problem isn’t the students, the problem is that universities have hired people with serious anxiety issues into administration and “expert” advisor level jobs. They assume everyone is as neurotic and fragile as they are and they have made it their mission in life to turn post-secondary instructors into kindergarten teachers. Unfortunately, this trains borderline neurotic students to become more hypersensitive and more demanding of safe spaces. This reinforces the neurotic administrators/advisors desire to increase their no-anxiety efforts. It’s a viscious cycle. Teach resilience in high school to break the cycle.

    If a person can’t handle CAPS, then those students should be required to seek professional help (and the employee who proposed the idea). I’d bet that number is less than 1% of adult students.

    1. @LC Bennett “If a person can’t handle CAPS, then those students should be required to seek professional help”
      That would be a complete waste of time and money. They are beyond help. Their parents should just give them a soother and a playroom.

      1. I think what’s going on in our culture is a couple of weird mutuations of Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSP). The first is university staff getting some kind of perverse kick out of psychologically damaging kids by encouraging emotional fragility. The second mutation of Munchausen syndrome by proxy is where privledged people get offended on behalf of a minority groups because they view all minorities as emotionally fragile. Both are a product of a sick culture.

    2. This isn’t the first iteration, to be sure. Back in my uni days, some decades ago, the joke at the time was about how sensitive people were to complain about their paper corrections (in high school) being in RED PEN. The horror! And yet, instructions to do no more of it were circulated. When does a running joke stop being funny?

      1. When I went to college, I was told by education profs not to use red pen when I corrected student work. I used it anyway, and at one point I did ask the students (high school) what they thought of various colours I could use in correcting work. They overwhelmingly responded that they preferred red, as it showed up so well, and they could quickly find what corrections or suggestions I had made.

        IMHO, all this “protecting” of the students has nothing to do with the students. It is about the institution posing for itself, so the administrators can pat themselves on the back and say to each other, “Look how caring we are!”
        It is the same with most leftie causes….. the so-called beneficiaries don’t benefit in any measurable fashion, and are often harmed via enablement, but the posers can congratulate themselves on how progressive and caring and nurturing they are. They never re-visit, say, Native reserves years after the photo-op to see if their policies have made any difference.
        Virtue signalling.
        OR…… journalism school. ‘Nuff said.

        1. Teacher school. That sounds familiar. I dabbled with that career in uni before realising it wasn’t for me.

          And I think you’re right. It’s all about virtue signalling and fixing the wrong problems with things, instead of calling BS on so many things that need it. A bureaucracy is like a shark, in that if it stops doing things, it dies.

    3. my wife is somewhat dyslexic and finds that typing in all upper case works better for her.

  5. I think this cultural era should be named The Age of Fragility. In the opinion of “experts” everything is fragile.

    Adults are so fragile that they can’t see statues/posters/images or hear politically incorrect speech or read opposing ideas. Children can’t experience any negativity or even brief moments being unsupervised without being scarred for life. All aspects of life, from birth to death, must be micromanaged by politicians and experts or…doom on you.

    Animal and plant species that have evolved over 100s of millions of years through glaciation, migration and predation have suddenly lost the ability to adapt to any changes in their environment. Note: Nature gets rid of fragile, unadaptable species quite efficiently. This is why 90%+ of species that have existed on Earth have become extinct. Species alive today are the survivors…they’re the versions best able to adapt to changes.

    Even Earth’s climate is assumed to be as fragile as a newborn lamb and requires micromanaging by the political class.

    This Age of Fragility can’t end soon enough.

  6. The academia is becoming less academic and more of an ideology training.
    It’s sinking into bizarre.
    Though it will work since they have the trademark on academia.

  7. In a related story … Sheryl Sandberg is “leaning on” Fackebook Employees by BLAMING them for all Fackebook problems. I am willing to bet that she is even texting missives in ALL CAPS!!!
    See … women can be just as bitchy as men.

    1. Facebook’s share price recently has been dropping. I caught a discussion on CNBC business news, and some on the panel said that Zuckerberg’s corporation is in decline. This for a number of reasons, but Facebook’s war against conservatives will not help things.

      1. The consensus is that Fackebook et al are all gonna face EXTREME regulations for their squelching of FREE SPEECH. Their attempt to influence this midterm election is going to get them regulated out of existence. I hope it was worth it, Zuckky Suckky. My advice … do NOT wait to SELL your BIG Tech stocks. It’s gonna get a LOT worse. A LOT worse. Tech was battered in the NASDAQ today … drop drop drop.

        1. I wonder if he’s going to pull a Soros? Buy short on a large volume and sell at current price, then do and say even stupider things to tank the stock before he has to buy the stock.

          Mind you, Soros was careful to sink the currencies of others rather than his own company.

  8. Any student who is that delicate won’t be able to function in the real world in any capacity whatsoever, so attempting to educate them is a waste of time, money and effort. The sooner they can be encouraged to drop out, the better for the university, the taxpayer and for them too.

    1. “Any student who is that delicate won’t be able to function in the real world in any capacity whatsoever, so …”

      … the universities create administrative jobs for them in various Departments such as Diversity, Inclusion, Social Justice, etc.

  10. I liked the part where the students were afraid of clapping to show approval/gratitude. So they demanded instead for a show of jazz hands. (Jazz hands, W.T.F.?)

    So, if we applaud for a show of support the S.J.W. snowflakes will be driven out like mosquitoes by citronella candles. Sounds like a plan 🙂

    How about we tell the snowflakes that, when they hyperventilate. They’re producing more CO2.
    So they have to stop hyperventilating or pay a carbon tax (indulgence) to we calmer, normal folk.

    1. After reading “Students at Manchester have voted to ban clapping over fears noise could trigger anxiety and suggest using “jazz hands” to show appreciation” I was about to loose it, but then I reflected deeply.

      – JAZZ HANDS would insult and offend all those who are unable to see.
      – To all students, don’t spread your JAZZ HANDS into my personal space. I find it very OFFENSIVE.
      – And some people might confuse raised JAZZ HANDS as a Hitler salute, this would lead to anxiety and violence.

      To the students of Manchester; please go back to kindergarten and start over. Or move to Venezuela. I hear its a real socialist utopia. But remember to bring your own toilet paper.

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