The Coddling of the American Mind Movie

The Coddling of the American Mind Movie

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Too Anxious to Finish Their Assignments on Time

Too Anxious to Finish Their Assignments on Time

How colleges use “accommodation letters” to coddle students

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As I began contemplating how to structure this essay, I revisited a recent TED Talk by NYU Professor Scott Galloway. The talk, grimly titled Do We Love Our Children?, is both sobering and provocative.

In it, Galloway presents graph after graph, detailing the dismal state of our youth’s mental, physical, and financial well-be…

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