Psychology Today: Students’ Emotional Fragility
Students are emotionally fragile.
Here is the most recent article from Dr. Peter Gray covering the phenomenon of heightened emotional fragility in college students.
There is no doubt that students are experiencing more pressure today than in the past. As you have heard on many of our podcasts and read in our columns, the climate of our current education system, from kindergarten through college, is fostering stress, emphasizing compliance, and restricting exploration. Students have been trained to believe that the only thing that is important is a high grade. The process of learning has changed.