This was a a fascinating read.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/

I happen to agree with a LOT of the sentiment in that article. True education is about considering things that could not and would not have occurred to you in a vacuum. Gotta say that often, those opportunities are initially a bit unpleasant or jarring by definition.

DD has noted a bit of this. Some professors are wary-- and others are downright DEFIANT over it. The latter tend to be those with tenure, by the way... and I'll also add, here, that this is precisely the sort of situation that tenure was intended to combat.


Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.