School can invert home’s conformism by offering self-reinvention through ideas

Evidence

School was the place of ecstasy—pleasure and danger. To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter the danger zone. Home was the place where I was forced to conform to someone else’s image of who and what I should be. School was the place where I could forget that self and, through ideas, reinvent myself. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 13

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A nuanced account of why classroom learning is simultaneously pleasure and risk — the danger of changed identity, not just of reprisal.
• XREF: connects to: Acknowledging every student’s presence is the necessary precondition for radical learning — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 25; Ideologies can shatter traditional ideas and empower new ones in a receptive class — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 339

Broader Connections

• Ideologies can shatter traditional ideas and empower new ones in a receptive class #corroborates (0.90) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 339