Thus suffering, or a willful surrender to the experience, may be an essential characteristic of transformative learning experiences in the classroom. To undergo transformative experiences, students may need to momentary suspend overactive self-reflection (e.g., Is this cool? Will I look like a nerd?) and critical evaluation (e.g., Is this going to be on the test? Is this idea valid?) long enough to allow themselves to become a part of a potentially engaging teaching episode. Wong (2007) explained,