Sunlight on a Broken Column

“Everyday at this theological college where I am taught so-called virtues takes me farther away from God. I tried to believe that humility is a virtue, but forced humility is degradation!” While in The Crooked Line we got a sort of realist teenage angst depictions of Shaman’s education, here we get commentary of how those who were going through the education system Shaman describes felt. This quote adds to the feeling I have began to get from my research that the education system was in a way a bit of subtractive schooling. It took away the cultural capital which you had gained in your family without replacing it with anything that made you viable to those people you associate with.