It was a long time ago.................

..............................but I don't remember junior high school as being anything like a "cozy emotional embryo."

"Are today’s students, then, brave reformers or fragile hothouse campus plants? Do they want to wade into freewheeling debate and battle all ideological comers, or do they insist on being protected by surrogate faculty parents, who must provide them the same cozy emotional embryos that they enjoyed in junior high school?"

A quote from Victor Davis Hanson does some research on a new breed:  the cry-bully.  Read about it here.