[oulipo]

I'm not sure it is the problem of a culture treating children particularly -- I think it has much more to do with the fact that:

- in America you can sue someone for almost anything

- universities in the US made students pay so much for their educations, that basically they got fucked up because students now ask to be the boss since Universities would be at a loss without them, so they must comply to their every demand

On the contrary, in Europe, teachers are "the boss" and students come to them to learn, so there is a respect for the institution and the teaching, and people learn to manage their every whim

[ObviousScience]

Then why did several examples come from UK universities?

[oulipo]

I'm not aware of those, but there may be some indeed -- I'd say the culture is close between US & UK so it can permeate, but how I see it, the problem is rather that University deans do not play their roles (they should protect teachers except in the case of a mistake from the teacher's part) and explain to students they have to be open to debate opinions, but in practice they are so scared of lawsuits or losing students who pay so much that they'd rather fire the teacher than make students become better citizens

[eli_gottlieb]

UK universities have been transformed into businesses just as aggressively as American ones.