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You can argue that any attempt to "teach" at all is structural MACROaggression. Behavioral microaggression theory: missing forest for trees.
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Self-directed learning, in which the actors formerly known as "teachers" become reactors, is no panacea, but it is an idea at right _level_
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When exit/voice in learning is too coarse-grained (courses, or worse, majors and degrees), big "bundles" will necessarily encode violence
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Smaller bundles of learning allow the student to trade-off have control over how to trade-off risks to psyche and learning goals.
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Note that students *already* manage risk at high cost today: picking "easy As" or ideologically simpatico majors with E(learning)>E(PTSD)
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