From Todd Mcgowan’s Embracing Alienation loc 1266:
Alienation works in Hegel’s system in two moments. At first, children become alienated through education or Bildung. Hegel completely rejects the romantic image of an educational process that develops the intrinsic potential of the child.16 Instead, he conceives of education as an act of violence done to the child, a violence that disrupts the child’s inherent tendencies rather than allowing them to blossom according to their own logic. This is because their own logic is never that of the subject itself but rather of what invisibly determines it. The alien violence of education is what initially frees the child from its familial and social situation. In this sense, education is an emancipatory violence. Hegel emphasizes the confrontation with alien thinking that occurs in education. Education forces children into an alien process. They must occupy themselves with rote learning and mechanical drills in order to acquire the ability to think for themselves. They cannot just pass directly to independent thinking but must traverse the alienating mechanical process that occurs in the first years of education. The subject capable of freedom emerges out of this alien imposition that appears to bear no resemblance to freedom. My ability to think independently depends on an initial dependence on the routinized development of skills.
Mark Carrigan 