A lot of my concerns about education boil down to this bizarre and deeply anti-intellectual trend of turning institutions of higher learning into even more cloistered and detached-from-reality environments than they already are.

Students should walk out equipped with the critical thinking and rational discussion skills necessary to safely navigate disagreements, hostility, and emotional violence in the working world.

Universities themselves should try to raise consciousness about the need to balance freedom of speech with the need to make all students feel welcome. Talking openly about such conflicting but important values is just the sort of challenging exercise that any diverse but tolerant community must learn to do. Restrictive speech codes should be abandoned.