According to “leading research” in the UK, using all-caps in university instructions could “frighten students into failure.”… Course leaders say capitalising a word could emphasise “the difficulty or high-stakes nature of the task”.
we live in a world in which clapping has been banned and replaced with “jazz hands” to avoid the potential of anxiety for students. We live in a world with coloring books, puppies, and safe spaces for college students who require respite from a world with President Trump. We live in a world where a professor at Harvard Law – HARVARD FREAKING LAW (oh sorry – all caps, are you okay?) is dealing with law students who believe that rape law should not be taught. We live in a world in which practically everything must be prefaced with a trigger warning.
We live in a world in which anything that goes against the official rhetoric of the Big Tech gods is immediately censored out.
All of this coddling comes at a high price for mental health.
Yes folks, the Political Correctness epidemic gets ever worse.
Part of my life was spent teaching law. The picture seems to be a lecture on Maths or Physics. Few females in the class.
Around the world, my experience has been, a lecture hall contains the same seating arrangement as in the photo. Almost no students in the first two rows. Progressively builds up to near the back where it appears almost full. Students at back talking to each other and looking at mobile devices.
The lecturer stands alone. A remote figure with only a lectern to protect him from 800 students. He can be likened to a lion tamer in a cage of lions.