The Harvard "kindness pledge"
Virginia Postrel looks at Harvard's kindness pledge:
"Yet what the Harvard Crimson dubs the 'freshman kindness pledge' remains in place. The vast majority of freshmen, and the college itself, have formally declared that 'the exercise of kindness' is 'on par with intellectual attainment.' Both parts of that equation are odd, and they are odd in ways that suggest something has gone awry at Harvard."
Here is the problem with these silly ideas: they end up encouraging all the wrong things and creating bizarre unintended consequences as noticed by one Harvard professor:
“You can’t get them to argue easily. They’re wary of that. They know the game that you’re playing with them, whereas 20 years ago they loved to play the game.”
In the world of political correctness and social engineering it is never the stated (or unstated) rule that is the problem and always the judge.
So what is a responsible undergraduate to do? How about intellectual rigor? Honesty? Scrutiny? Discussion? Debate?
Thanks to Greg Mankiw.
"Yet what the Harvard Crimson dubs the 'freshman kindness pledge' remains in place. The vast majority of freshmen, and the college itself, have formally declared that 'the exercise of kindness' is 'on par with intellectual attainment.' Both parts of that equation are odd, and they are odd in ways that suggest something has gone awry at Harvard."
Here is the problem with these silly ideas: they end up encouraging all the wrong things and creating bizarre unintended consequences as noticed by one Harvard professor:
“You can’t get them to argue easily. They’re wary of that. They know the game that you’re playing with them, whereas 20 years ago they loved to play the game.”
In the world of political correctness and social engineering it is never the stated (or unstated) rule that is the problem and always the judge.
So what is a responsible undergraduate to do? How about intellectual rigor? Honesty? Scrutiny? Discussion? Debate?
Thanks to Greg Mankiw.
What more can you expect from an Ivy League puppy mill?
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