If I thought that our last reading was dry or difficult, I was mistaken. I really struggled to read and understand this chapter.
My basic understanding is that what he is discussing is bullying. How it happens, and how it keeps happening. The oppressed (bullied) he demoralized enough that instead of rising up to defend themselves, they oppress others to feel better about themselves; they know that people are feeling the same things that they had felt. With this in mind, it is interesting to see who I believe he describes as the oppressors/the bullies. The teachers, who are supposed to be molding the minds and lives of their students, are the oppressors; their students are oppressed.
Overall I still have a hard time fully understand what he was trying to get across in this chapters. I think discussion will really clarify for me what he was trying to emphasize, but without it I would be completely lost. I have not had such a difficult time with a reading piece in a long time.
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