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That's an argument for why it's reasonable to be wary of taking financial risks. It's not an argument for why it's reasonable to call the police and a psychothe
by rwallace 11y ago
That's an argument for why it's reasonable to be wary of taking financial risks. It's not an argument for why it's reasonable to call the police and a psychotherapist because you saw a mouse in your apartment.
- pippy 11y agoYou'll always find people like that in University. The interesting thing is the younger generation treating education like a commodity. And given tuition costs, they have a right to. This will inevitably cause tension between the academics and the students. The most damaging cause it will have is on society long term, as higher learning traditionally has been used for demonstrating the capability of an individual. Instead we're seeing the capability for obtaining ~$30k debt.
- thebooktocome 11y ago> You'll always find people like that in University. The point of the article was that we are finding more people like that, on average, than we were in the past.
- 6d0debc071 11y agoPeople's feelings aren't necessarily reasonable. If you grow up almost exclusively in an environment where failure can snowball fairly easily, which school is, and everyone tells you it's really important not to fail in that context, whether or not that's true, then that will be likely to be a large part of the pattern of emotion you have when confronting failures outside that context.