teaching

XCRUSHx@aol.com
Thu, 06 May 1999 00:21:35 -0400 (EDT)

we seem to be talking alot about teaching, be it through example or through 
persuasion or through "education" of appropriate judgemental abilities.  and 
it seems that much of what drove salinger's literature (perhaps the preachier 
of it) was his views of education, or rather non-education.  Don't "Teddy" 
and Catcher atest to the beauty and pertinance of innocence.  All his talk 
about biting from the apple? doesn't that tell us his approach on the 
education of children? 
The problem i have with this, or perhaps a possible solution is that 
inevitably kids when faced with the standards of society are going to be 
taught, they simply do not have the chance to experience and understand but 
only to be taught and semi/not-understand.  So then taking this into account, 
intelectualism can be justified because once we have bitten from the apple 
the only thing to do is to eat as many apples as we can.


-stephen