I am a disembodied brain in a jar.

After reading this chapter in Crawford, I can't help but relate to the feeling that I am being treated like a man in a box cut off from the outside world getting instructions and being expected to follow along and spit out some paper. I'm merely regurgitating much of what I've been "taught", but I don't really know how much of it I have taken in or have understood. It seems as though the education seems to work both ways where professors are treated with the same sort of robotic functions. I wonder what sort of learning environment would be created if students and teachers could learn how to interact with each other as if they were normal human beings and not just another face of a careless institution looking for our money.

I would have appreciated if Crawford hit more on how relationships affect learning and doing, because it seems to me that there is something more than individuals being treated like machines. I would like to hear some suggestions with sound reasoning for a different way for things to be done rather than just more concerns about the current way of society.