[lit-ideas] Re: Poet Managers

I usually do a check every once in a while in my philosophy classes,
asking whether the strange looks I'm getting on student faces is one of
"puzzlement" or one of "confusion."  I tell them that if they don't
know what the heck is going on, they are confused and I'll try to help
them get a better grasp of what we're talking about. But if they do
have a sense of what's going on, and are puzzled by it, then that's a
Good Thing and I don't need to help them get over it.
It's good to be reminded of this distinction. I've always told my students that they need to be puzzled; if they weren't, they'd have no reason to be interested in philosophy (as opposed to the history of ideas) at all. They need 'to see what the problem is.' 

Robert Paul
The Reed Institute

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