A PHILOSOPHY LESSON: How Not to Teach Instructor: Nowwewillbeginourlectureonepistemologybyexplainingsomeaspectsof cartesianscepticisminthelightoffoucaultsconceptofarchaeologybys tatingthatsincerationalexperimyntofmostisatransitorydevelopment ofustriggercomplexificationandinthefaunevarsearesilfregulatingb ottherebusomnuusthepirtofistthemythinwhechauniverseframmuchramo dellengesinseparabletilifeanyexistswithbeingfallyandloveanswunt undorsetasfyactionswhateverargunusmfromdovelopevolutionary. . . Student 1: Teacher, may I go to the bathroom? Instructor: Yes do so - andwisdomflowsfromthispropositionforDescartesthough tescapescepticismweshoulhaagendastheexistenceofistinceperceptio nstoreliablysureourclaimstoknowledgefarfromsecureyetcertainques tionsarenotconcernedwiththewaysthingsultimatelyarebutratherourk nowledgeofthemandthatisbecausetheuneverseofsoftopossibleinderst abandonlongingacitemporineauswullshallbotheawefremwhachwaviewre lugionwhichosuppesudtoexistenceandshowstheuncrassrsetoeverathen gtotalbeteachlifeisseparotudfrimthuenderstanding . . . Student 2: Teacher, I think I need to go to the bathroom, too. Instructor: Hmm - if there is anexistentialimperativethatimperialistroaders whofailtoseethewisodomofmaoexistthrutrealpolitikandclasstruggle sandwallsofsexualitewasamadhouseisolatedtoreasoninwhichintentio nbecomeslikeapanopticoninwhichhumanurgesstranglestrangerthingsa sthebrainmutatesintonewchemistriesforthinkingisanindicationofne possiblieniversedevelopungwhuchprocessifitexistsinasensuofchosu ppesudtoexistenceandshowstheuncrassrsetoeverathengtotalbeteachl ifeisseparotudfrimthuenderstandingtwhotexestsspringfremthutreal atyandfarmaccerdswall . . . Student 3: Err, could you explain next week's homework? Klangggggggggggggggggu! [The class bell] Instructor: Ahh, Pavlov's Bell! Class dismissed. Next week we willconsidert herelationbetweenWittengensteinundmetaphyisicsinlightofcognitiv elinguisticsandpostmorderntheoriesoftextprocessing. Are you cle ear on this? Satoru: I've been through lessons like this. Melissa: Yeah. Some professors are so engrossed in their own thoughts that they forget the world around them. Liao: We need a balanced vision: a keen awareness of our audience as well as a clear idea of our instructional target. Tim: You make it sound as if teaching were a military exercise. . . Liao: In one sense, it is. ===================================================================================== from _Crassroom Voices - Poetry, Art, & Dialogs about Education_ by T Newfields SUMMARY: An enigmatic satire about a philosophy lesson and communication gaps KEYWORDS: teacher-student communication gaps, text transcendence, philosophy instruction, philosophy teaching, teaching principles, pedagogy, post-modernism Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955) Begun: 2000 in Taipei, Taiwan / Finished: 2013 in Tokyo, Japan Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted < LAST http://www.tnewfields.info/CrassroomVoices/insight.htm TOC http://www.tnewfields.info/CrassroomVoices/index.html NEXT > http://www.tnewfields.info/CrassroomVoices/night_fan.htm