University Pres: “Challenging Ideas Are What Produce Adults.” By
This is Not a Day Care. It’s a University! By Everett Piper. Oklahoma Wesleyan University, November 23, 2015.
Fox News Insider:
Oklahoma Wesleyan University President Dr. Everett Piper is fed up with students who cry victim when their views are challenged.
This is Not a Day Care. It’s a University! By Everett Piper. Oklahoma Wesleyan University, November 23, 2015.
Fox News Insider:
Oklahoma Wesleyan University President Dr. Everett Piper is fed up with students who cry victim when their views are challenged.
Piper
joined Bill O’Reilly tonight to explain why he was moved to write an open
letter after one student allegedly claimed he felt “victimized” by a university
chapel service about love.
“Our
culture has actually taught kids to be this self-absorbed and narcissistic,”
Piper wrote. “Anyone who dares challenge them and, thus, makes them ‘feel bad’
about themselves, is a ‘hater,’ a ‘bigot,’ an ‘oppressor,’ and a ‘victimizer’
... This is not a day care. This is a university!”
Piper
explained to O’Reilly that our culture is more interested in graduating
students who are more self-absorbed than selfless.
He said
that he wanted to encourage students to follow the classic liberal arts model
of pursuing truth and identifying what’s false, rather than nurture a
self-centered “us vs. them” mentality.
“I’m
not interested in coddling you in your selfishness,” Piper stated. “I’m
interested in challenging you to have a higher degree of character. Those
challenging ideas are what produce adults.”
