President Barack Obama agrees: “That’s not the way we learn,” he said recently of shielding students from conflicting points of view. In other words, it may not be a good idea to run your gripes through the Perfect365 app, which allows users to “make over” or edit photos before sharing them on social-networking sites. That’s because if you’re struggling with an issue, it’s healthier to confront it than to sweep it under the rug.
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Similarly, Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt in “The Coddling of the American Mind,” their much-discussed Atlantic article from the fall, conclude that the extreme political correctness on college campuses, where students seek protection from words and ideas they don’t like (also referred to as “triggers”), not only paralyzes the free exchange of ideas, but also leads to depression. Furthermore, he laments the “grandiosity and depression” wherein the self-esteem students derive from praise for high grades falls apart the moment they encounter failure. While they do their assignments well, there isn’t passion, engagement, or dissonance in their work. In his book Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life, William Deresiewicz says that students at Ivy League universities, after having been admitted thanks to perfect grades, exemplary test scores, and the right extracurricular activities, are more focused on building their résumés than nurturing their souls.
Clusters of students also took their lives at Tulane University, Cornell University, New York University, and elsewhere in the 2014-15 academic year. Her death was the third of six suicides at Penn in a 13-month period. After posting a festive image of Rittenhouse Square lit up with holiday lights on her Instagram account, she jumped from a downtown Philadelphia parking garage. When, as a freshman, she struggled with demanding academics and track practices, the perfect image she had cultivated in real life and on social media was suddenly tarnished. We’ve all heard about the cult of perfection’s impact on Madison Holleran, who chose to run track at the University of Pennsylvania over an offer to play soccer, “the sport she loved most,” at the less prestigious Lehigh University, according to Philadelphia Magazine. What’s happening on our college campuses, especially the elite ones, is disconcerting: Homogeneous thought is increasing, and suicide rates are rising.
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