[637] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: expressions @mit [was: re: Dartmouth & ZP]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Jones)
Sat May 12 19:42:42 2001
To: "Jimmy_B,MajMoola,MechWarrior,etc._Chien-ta Wu" <jimmbswu@MIT.EDU>
Cc: mit-talk@MIT.EDU
From: Ray Jones <rjones@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: "Jimmy_B,MajMoola,MechWarrior,etc._Chien-ta Wu"'s message of "Sat, 12 May 2001 17:42:53 EDT"
Date: 12 May 2001 19:42:19 -0400
Message-ID: <ppw7kzm16ec.fsf@PIXIE.MIT.EDU>
"Jimmy_B,MajMoola,MechWarrior,etc._Chien-ta Wu" <jimmbswu@MIT.EDU> writes:
> One duty of the MIT administration is create a comfortable learning
> environment for all members of the MIT community.
I strongly disagree with this statement. Learning is not a
comfortable activity. People are bound to encounter ideas hard for
them to deal with in an environment like this (be that quantum
mechanics or racy posters in the infinite), and that will cause
discomfort.
MIT should try to make the learning environment as comfortable as
possible, but not by curtailing the ideas that students are allowed to
express or experience.
Ray Jones
