Saturday, February 03, 2007
More on Education
If you read last month's selection, Teacher Man, you may have given some thought to what education is. Malcolm Gladwell, the author of this month's selection, has said that he sees himself as "a kind of translator between the academic and non-academic worlds. There's just all sorts of fantastic stuff out there, but there's not nearly enough time and attention paid to that act of translation. Most people leave college in their early twenties, and that ends their exposure to the academic world. To me that's a tragedy." What do you think? From what you have read of the book so far, do you think Gladwell is acting as a "translator"? Do you think that this is a subject that needs translating?
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I found it inspiring that Gladwell took such an "everyday" subject, something so commonplace, and was able to turn it into a serious inquiry and the basis for his book.
Similarly with McCourt...he wrote a book about being a teacher, something that countless others have done; it's not like he negotiated middle east peace or something like that.
I think the lesson here is that we all have stories to tell!
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