娇惯的心灵 – The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff

为什么中产阶级的家长都成了“虎爸虎妈”，作为“直升机式”教育方法的信徒，把孩子们照看得密不透风？

为什么这些中产阶级的孩子，虽能在学术履历的“军备竞赛”中脱颖而出，却在青春期时成为前所未见的脆弱一代，从焦虑到抑郁，这一代似乎毫无免疫力？

为什么生于互联网时代，孩子们却惯于在社交媒体构筑的虚拟世界里寻找意见的共鸣，面对不同的观点和立场，用举报的方式来消除自己的不安全感？

为什么大学也失去了教育者的担当，把学生当作永远都对的消费者，迎合学生成为改革目标，一时间，几乎所有文明传统关于教育的智慧都被抛在脑后？

《娇惯的心灵》是一部“社会科学的侦探小说”，作者抽丝剥茧，回答了“钢铁”是怎么没能炼成的美国故事。对于任何一位关注教育、青少年心理，以及互联网一代的读者都值得一读。

A timely investigation into the campus assault on free speech and what it means for students, education, and our democracy.

The generation now coming of age has been taught three Great Untruths: their feelings are always right; they should avoid pain and discomfort; and they should look for faults in others and not themselves. These three Great Untruths are part of a larger philosophy that sees young people as fragile creatures who must be protected and supervised by adults. But despite the good intentions of the adults who impart them, the Great Untruths are harming kids by teaching them the opposite of ancient wisdom and the opposite of modern psychological findings on grit, growth, and antifragility. The result is rising rates of depression and anxiety, along with endless stories of college campuses torn apart by moralistic divisions and mutual recriminations.

This is a book about how we got here. First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt take us on a tour of the social trends stretching back to the 1980s that have produced the confusion and conflict on campus today, including the loss of unsupervised play time and the birth of social media, all during a time of rising political polarization.

This is a book about how to fix the mess. The culture of “safety” and its intolerance of opposing viewpoints has left many young people anxious and unprepared for adult life, with devastating consequences for them, for their parents, for the companies that will soon hire them, and for a democracy that is already pushed to the brink of violence over its growing political divisions. Lukianoff and Haidt offer a comprehensive set of reforms that will strengthen young people and institutions, allowing us all to reap the benefits of diversity, including viewpoint diversity.

This is a book for anyone who is confused by what’s happening on college campuses today, or has children, or is concerned about the growing inability of Americans to live and work and cooperate across party lines.