A recent study was published and reviewed in the NYT that detailed growing pressures in education and its affect on well-being.
A particular passage stood out in the essay:
Professor Sax has explored the role of the faculty in college students’ emotional health, and found that interactions with faculty members were particularly salient for women. Negative interactions had a greater impact on their mental health.“Women’s sense of emotional well-being was more closely tied to how they felt the faculty treated them,” she said. “It wasn’t so much the level of contact as whether they felt they were being taken seriously by the professor. If not, it was more detrimental to women than to men.”
She added: “And while men who challenged their professor’s ideas in class had a decline in stress, for women it was associated with a decline in well-being.”
I don’t want to extrapolate, but I saw a connection regarding education, gender and the suppression of the critical consciousness.
William Dare 