Shame leads to a variant on guessing the teacher’s password—an effort to not piss people off, without asking them what might be problematic. After all, you’re supposed to know better than to make that mistake.
I agree with your point, but I do not think the emotion should be dispensed with altogether, if that’s really possible. I think you can separate social embarrassment, which in this context is counterproductive, from deep very personal private embarrassment of having been stupid.
Shame leads to a variant on guessing the teacher’s password—an effort to not piss people off, without asking them what might be problematic. After all, you’re supposed to know better than to make that mistake.
“The shameful does not learn”—Talmud
I agree with your point, but I do not think the emotion should be dispensed with altogether, if that’s really possible. I think you can separate social embarrassment, which in this context is counterproductive, from deep very personal private embarrassment of having been stupid.