So higher education has been teaching self-absorption and narcissism for some thirty, forty, fifty years, and now all of a sudden we’re surprised? We’re surprised to find a self-absorbed and narcissistic populace? We’re surprised to see students acting selfishly on the campus green and in the classroom?
We taught them to behave that way. We taught them that it doesn’t matter what you believe as long as it works for you. We have been pedaling this pablum of value neutrality for decades, and now we’re shocked that they have no values and they have no virtue? Of course they’re going to think this way because we told them so. Higher education is responsible. The university is at fault.
No Safe Spaces, edited by Dennis Prager and Mark Joseph, pg.227
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