Re: The role of the teacher

Dear Sirs,

Some time ago, I said "One of the reasons I participated in this
discussion was to obtain an explanation, preferably a modest one, of
deconstruction. Instead, I hit a wall of orthodoxy, and accordingly
to Omlor this is the procedure necessary:

To Know Derrida you must experience Derrida, to experience Derrida you MUST
read him and read him closely.

Now Omlor says again:

>>If people here were actually reading the texts, and then approaching me
>>for
>>comments about passages or for explanations about pages or to go over
>>their
>>specific readings with them, I would be quite happy to try and make things
>>simpler for them, or try and clarify their own readings with my own.
>>
>>But that's not what's happening here. NO one is reading and, in fact, I
>>am
>>being told people won't have the time to, so please just tell us what is
>>looks like so we can recognize it and thereby save us the trouble of
>>reading
>>"long and difficult books."

No one on this list-especially a cloddishly naive chap such as
myself-ought to be interpreting Nietzsche right now. Still, omlor
had me reading my only copy of ECCE HOMO last night, and I wrote
down this quote, I feel one pertinent to the what I said above:

"No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already
knows. A man has no ears for that which experience has given him no
access."

Cordially,

John Gedsudski
Adjunct Professor of Sciolism
Northern Philistia Community College
501 Boorish Drive
Ny,NY

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Received on Sun Mar 9 11:13:13 2003