Students fear that wellness disqualifies them from academic careers

Evidence

While I wanted teaching to be my career, I believed that personal success was intimately linked with self-actualization. My passion for this quest led me to interrogate constantly the mind /body split that was so often taken to be a given. … Like many of the students I now teach, I was often told by powerful academics that I was misguided to seek such a perspective in the academy. Th rough out my student years I felt deep inner anguish. Memory of that pain returns as I listen to students express the concern that they will not succeed in academic professions if they want to be well, if they eschew dysfunctional behavior or participation in coercive hierarchies. These students are often fearful, as I was, that there are no spaces in the academy where the will to be self-actualized can be affirm ed. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 50

Categorization

• XREF: Complements the claim that academic objectification tolerates dysfunction so long as the mind works.