One of the most distressing tasks of a university president is to pretend that the protest and outrage of each new generation of undergraduates is really fresh and meaningful. In fact, it is one of the most predictable controversies that we know. The participants go through a ritual of hackneyed complaints, almost as ancient as academe, while believing that what is said is radical and new. – Clark Kerr, former chancellor UC Berkley.
http://assistantvillageidiot.blogspot.com/2022/04/quotes-by-clark-kerr-chancellor-of-uc.html
Is "pretending" a way of maintaining peace, or perhaps of allowing students to believe
they have discovered an outrage unknown or unrecognized by previous students?
Wouldn’t it be more in the making of adults to teach students, “Your protests
are the same as those of 25 years ago”?
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