Safe Spaces vs. Sacred Spaces and the Purpose of University Education
“Our students are going mad. We’ve brought them into a place where we systematically expose them to the terrors of existence,” so says Prof. Rachel Fulton Brown of the University of Chicago in this public presentation which took place in London, Ontario on May 3rd, 2019.
Prof. Fulton Brown makes the claim that many students do not fully comprehend that the purpose of a University is not to provide a ‘safe space’ for them to hide away from any idea which might make them feel offended but to provide a ‘sacred’ place for them to ponder the more substantive questions in life – a place to answer not just the questions of What and How but the more important question of Why. —JustRightMedia
Bonus: I tell the story of how I met Milo!
And I answer some tough questions.
Talk based on “Safe Spaces vs. Sacred Spaces,” September 29, 2016; and “A few words of advice to Trigglypuff—and her teachers,” September 30, 2016.
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ReplyDeleteIsn't the contemporary university though still a theological establishment? Only instead of serving the Christian faith it serves Leftism. It has its saints (Marcuse, Foucault, Butler), its theology departments (gender studies, women's studies, queer studies), its catechism which may not be denied (multiculturism), its deadly sins (racism, sexism, white privilege), and finally the reward of nirvana (wokeness).
ReplyDeleteAsking due to lack of knowledge, but in the sense above - Is the modern university really less free or much different than its ancestors in Padua, Bologna, Paris and Oxford? It seems to me that only the faith has changed.