Many thanks to LCMC pastor Daniel Ostercamp for his video review of the book, “The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure,” by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. A link to Daniel’s review can be found here. A link to our YouTube channel, which contains over four dozen reviews of books and videos on topics of interest and importance, can be found here.
Regarding the book, Daniel writes –
Successful societies find ways to teach their youth the timeless wisdom needed to build good lives. In this thoughtful and accessible book, a free speech lawyer (Lukianoff) and a social psychologist (Haidt) demonstrate how a generation of Americans is being set up to fail.
Three “Great Untruths” have become part and parcel of our educational process. Safetyism has replaced our innate need for challenge and stressors, the false advice to “always trust your feelings” has curved us ever more inward upon ourselves, and our political decisions have morphed from being based in our common humanity into a call to identify and eliminate our common enemies.
“The Coddling of the American Mind” provides a warning of the end station of good intentions and a pathway to renew our commitment to knowledge and truth.
