The other day I saw an article that called out university students saying that their skin is too thin, that they get offended over nothing, that university should be a place where different ideas fight it out to let the best one emerge. The article also reiterated that the university shouldn't be always out to shelter the students and look after their mental health.
Now, while I agree with the first statement, I don't see how it relates to the second one. In Universities, especially in Italy, there are oligarchies of professors who lord over and judge unfairly - and they get away with it pretty much every single time. There are professors who verbally abuse students, who create a toxic environment, who don't even tell you what the exam will be about or when the exam is going to be.
I think that a University should be a place where to square your differences with other students, where you are supposed to be fighting to find your place in the world. But it's one thing to fight against fair competitors and another to fight against a rigged system. When you have literally no chance of winning, there's no reason you should be playing. I firmly believe that Universities are just a global Stamford Experiment.
So, Universities, and pretty much every other place, should make sure that there's a decent amount of fairness. 80% fairness, I'd say. Why just 80%? More than that, it probably risks converting the energies into a tyrannical paternalism. People should get scratches and wounds, and even get very hurt in some cases. It's the price we pay to learn things. But we should get those wounds when we confront each other in a rather fair system, not against tyrants who can end you with a simple down-facing thumb.