- There's a certain middle class idea that conflict is bad and that order is more important than conflict. But conflict can create useful ideas and facilitators must be able to moderate healthy debate. - Often we are told not to interrupt since it's not polite or correct but often it can lead to better discussions. On occasions our middle class values hold us back. --- Few of us are taught to facilitate heated discussions that may include useful interruptions and digressions, but it is often the professor who is most invested in maintaining order in the classroom. Professors cannot empower students to embrace diversities of experience, standpoint, behavior, or style if our training has disempowered us, socialized us to cope effectively only with a single mode of interaction based on middle-class values. - bell hooks in [[Teaching To Transgress]]