Michael S. Roth says that college campuses do not need “safe spaces” but instead need “safe enough spaces.” “Our classrooms should never be so comfortable that intellectual confrontation becomes taboo or assumptions go unchallenged because everyone;s emotional well-being is overprotected. Instead, we must promote intellectual diversity in a context in which people can feel safe enough to challenge one another. Vigorous scholarly exchange and academic freedom depend on it”(Roth, paragraph 21). If you encourage an environment where kids can speak freely about their ideas and push others to think deeper and harder about their own ideas you are creating what Carol S. Dweck calls ‘growth mindsets.” If you allow kids to hide what they think or only say what they think is “safe,” or even easy, then you are supporting fixed mindsets and kids cannot grow or advance in their abilities. College campuses, especially, need to be a place where kids can push and challenge themselves and their peers on difficult or uncomfortable topics.