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Erika Christakis's and Jiang's educational ideal of debate, questioning, experimentation, mistakes, and growth through discomfort.
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free space
Erika Christakis's and Jiang's educational ideal of debate, questioning, experimentation, mistakes, and growth through discomfort.
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Jiang presents the Yale Halloween email incident as a conflict between safe space, which prioritizes avoiding offense, and free space, which treats experimentation, mistakes, and hurt feelings as part of education.
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Jiang says the classroom preference for safe space marks a generational divide from his youth, when free space was assumed to be the educational default.
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"...from them okay so the debate was about essentially over safe space versus free space the University said that safe space is important we..."
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"Okay so welcome back from the break. Today I want to talk about an incident that happened in October 2015 at Yale University. What..."
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"...this is a conflict right if the teachers care about safe space you cannot have free space right so the question then is what..."
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"...depends on who decided it feels like for myself i think free space will be more important i need to explore what i want..."
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"arguing for free space because they believe that by doing this you're gonna hurt our feelings all right and so let's look at what..."
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