When I agreed with Lukianoff and Haidt I thought that their quote about how protecting students make them less prepared for life outside their classroom was right. I think that students need to talk about difficult topics, and that coddling them does not support them. If you don’t expose them in a comfortable setting, they won’t be able to handle the topics anywhere else.

When I agreed with Roth’s quote that campuses need safe enough spaces and not just safe spaces and that students don’t need protection from the argument, they need the protection form the backlash. I think that students need spaces where they can speak freely and talk about whatever they want and say whatever they want without harassment. It is very beneficial and will help them gain confidence to speak their mind in other settings.

When I disagreed with Roth’s quote that students protecting themselves does not make them fragile, I think the opposite. I think that protecting themselves is a way of hiding how fragile they really are, this making them more fragile. I think students need ways to express their concerns or stressors or what makes them fragile and then be able to work towards getting stronger.

I agreed with Dweck saying that praising the process with students helps make them want to learn or try harder. Yes I agree that if you praise a student for trying really hard to figure out a difficult problem it will help them want to try harder in the future. But I also think that students won’t want to continue to try and they will find ways to get out of it.