No one would design a system of extreme supervision to prepare people for a decade of extreme openness. But this is exactly what has emerged in modern America.
But as David Brooks points out, modern America has designed a setup to raise hot-house tomatoes. Will they wilt or will they bloom into something all together new -- and able to deal with the country's big challenges. Here's Brooks' article. While I do agree with his big point, I do think students nowadays do get openness and "extreme openness." To some extent, what he's talking about is how to deal with not getting what you want, when you want it. In other words, life, day to day.
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