Students unable to speak with those who disagree with them, says Ivy League chief

[rangerrebew]

 Students unable to speak with those who disagree with them, says Ivy League chief
Story by Susie Coen • 19h


Students can no longer converse with people who disagree with them because of a rise in online “echo chambers,” an Ivy League university president has warned.

Sian Beilock, a cognitive scientist who took the reins at Dartmouth College last year, said social media has made it difficult for young people to interact with each other in person.
 
“We’re seeing that students aren’t practised at having conversations with people who disagree with them, in part because social media puts you towards people who agree with you,” Ms Beilock told The Times.

The Dartmouth College president said that “learning to talk to people who are different from you is a muscle that you build with training” and that it is something her university encourages alongside counselling and wider support mechanisms.

Dartmouth College, in New Hampshire, also takes new students on trips into nature in a bid to teach them how to spend time off their phones.

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[DefiantMassRINO]

Oh, it has nothing to do with the cradle to grave indoctrination by liberal parents, the liberal public school system and liberal universities?

Oh, how do liberals begin half their arguments ... "There's no debating ..."

If the debate is over, what's there to discuss?

You go to your corner, and I'll go to mine.  I'll patiently wait for you to be proven wrong, though you'll never admit that you were wrong.

[Millee]

If you speak up against the "approved narrative" you're going to be called all kinds of nasty names.  Debate cannot flourish under those circumstances.

[mountaineer]

Oh, it has nothing to do with the cradle to grave indoctrination by liberal parents, the liberal public school system and liberal universities?

As I opined on the thread about the work ethic of Gen Z, it may have to do with helicopter parents hovering over their little darlings to ensure that no a single tewwible thing ever happens in their lives, that they never go without something they want (no matter how unnecessary), that they never get a bad grade, and especially that no one ever offends them or hurts their feelings by expressing a contrary point of view.