[lit-ideas] Re: Poet Managers

Quoting Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>:

snip
> 
> Bertrand Russell:
> 
>      The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as  
> not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical  
> that no one will believe it. [The Philosophy of Logical Atomism]
> 
> Robert Paul
> sowing confusion


Interesting coincidence. Just yesterday - yes, the Summer term is big business
in Education - an undergrad student of mine said that she was so confused by
what has been transpiring in our course that she's had to alter the standard
approaches and frameworks she used in finding cogency and sound justification.
The pedagogical moral of the story, you ask? Confusion is a good thing to
promote in learning. Indeed, it may be a categorical requirement in genuine
learning/teaching. Otherwise, you might as well go with (death by) powerpoint
and a laundry list of bullets for the students to regurgitate on the final
exam. 

Walter O.
MUN



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