Semisensical ramblings by David W. Rick
This is a sort of amalgam post in which I discuss three texts that will not be directly considered for my comps questions. Rather, in the cases of Covino and Gardner, they will serve as supportive or framing pieces for other texts. In the case of Freud, I have determined that he will not be […]
“The creative individual is a person who regularly solves problems, fashions products, or defines new questions in a domain in a way that is initially considered novel but that ultimately becomes accepted in a particular cultural setting.” — Howard E. Gardner Key Terms: Intrinsic Motivation, Fruitful Asynchrony, Affective/Cognitive Support Howard E. Gardner’s Creating Minds: An […]
“A plethora of critiques currently focuses on what has been lost in, or sacrificed to the gains of, Philosophic thinking. The past few decades have been noisy with complaints about the damage done by ‘the scientific world view,’ ‘technical rationality,’ and so on. The main loss stems from the Philosophic tendency to embrace a narrow, […]
“Teachers and students (leadership and people), co-intent on reality, are both Subjects, not only in the task of unveiling that reality, and thereby coming to know it critically, but in the task of re-creating that knowledge. As they attain this knowledge of reality through common reflection and action, they discover themselves as permanent re-creators. In […]
“For I am so confident of the potentialities of education when it is treated as intelligently directed development of the possibilities inherent in ordinary experience that I do not feel it necessary to criticize here the other route nor to advance arguments in favor of taking the route of experience.” — John Dewey Dewey’s Experience […]
“The complete and perfect orator is who can speak in public about every subject with richness of arguments and variety of tunes and images.” — Crassus, in Cicero. De Oratore. Key Terms: Disertus, Eloquens, Loci/Topoi, Inventio, Dispositio, Elocutio, Memoria, Actio Cicero’s De Oratore takes the form of a letter to his brother, describing a dialogue […]
“For all advice to do things or not to do them is concerned with happiness and with the things that make for or against it; whatever creates or increases happiness or some part of happiness, we ought to do; whatever destroys or hampers happiness, or gives rise to its opposite, we ought not to do.” […]
“The fantastic, we have seen, lasts only as long as a certain hesitation: a hesitation common to reader and character, who must decide whether or not what they perceive derives from ‘reality’ as it exists in the common opinion. […] If he decides that the laws of reality remain intact and permit an explanation of […]
“We like to think that we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark; and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Key Term: Translation This text is Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction. In it, Le […]
List 1: Pleasure and inclusion Context These texts represent a bridge, a connection between both myself and RCTE as well as forming links between varied ways of understanding our discipline and entering into our work—of reading, writing, teaching, learning, or otherwise engaging with the work and the world. I have included various examples of Greco-Roman […]