Ready to hug a cactus? As a college instructor, my job is to inflict pain on my students---the pain of discipline and hard work. Student responses to pain consistently fall into two basic categories: Those who are willing to submit to the pain and those who resist. The "submitters" graduate with a college degree. The "resisters" drop out. The more a student resists the pain, the lower his or her grade. Paradoxically, students who resist pain create a host of other ... VIEW POST