[W]e are unintentionally teaching a generation of students three ”great untruths.” They are:
- The great untruth of fragility: What doesn’t kill you makes you weaker.
- The great untruth of emotional reasoning: Your feelings are always right.
- The great untruth of us versus them: Life is a battle between good people and evil people.
Greg Lukianoff, Catching up with ‘Coddling’ part one: Introduction.
Lukianoff is, with Jonathan Haidt, author of The Coddling of the American Mind