Learning pain is not equivalent to harm

Evidence

Not every moment in the classroom will necessarily be one that brings you immediate pleasure, but that doesn’t preclude the possibility of joy. Nor does it deny the reality that learning can be painful. And sometimes it’s necessary to remind students and colleagues that pain and painful situations don’t necessarily translate into harm. We make that very fundamental mistake all the time. Not all pain is harm, and not all pleasure is good. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 301

Categorization

• SEED: A possible essay examining how institutional “safety” discourse conflates intellectual difficulty with trauma, using hooks’ pain/harm distinction as an anchor.
• XREF: connects to: Corporal punishment is contraindicated for moral learning — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 6150; Penalty operates through the idea of pain, not pain itself — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 155; Pain can be embraced as passionate engagement rather than calculated means

Broader Connections

• Corporal punishment is contraindicated for moral learning #responds-to (0.85) — , The Rod and the Child, 6150
• Penalty operates through the idea of pain, not pain itself #expands (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 155
• Pain can be embraced as passionate engagement rather than calculated means #complicates (0.75)