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<p class="V">V {{#counter: }} — Come on. How's that to happen in most situations that are highly conventional, stereotypical, especially in formal education with everyone acting out well scripted behaviors?</p> | <p class="V">V {{#counter: }} — Come on. How's that to happen in most situations that are highly conventional, stereotypical, especially in formal education with everyone acting out well scripted behaviors?</p> | ||
< | <<div class="compact NavBlockOut"><div class="NavBlockInUpper" style="padding-left: 2px;"><h3 style="padding: 0;">Montaigne's tactful tutor</h3><p style="font-size: 14px;">I happened by remarkable good fortune to come in contact with a tutor who was an understanding man, who knew enough to connive cleverly at this frivolity of mine and others like it. For by this means I went right through Virgil's <i>Aeneid</i>, and then Terence, and then Plautus, and some Italian comedies, always lured on by the pleasantness of the subject. If he had been foolish enough to break me of this habit, I think I should have got nothing out of school but a hatred of books, as do nearly all of our noblemen. He went about it cleverly. Pretending to see nothing, he whetted my appetite, letting me gorge myself with these books only in secret, and gently keeping me at my work on the regular studies.<ref>Michel de Montaigne, "Of the Education of Children," in <i>The Complete Works</i> (Donald M. Frame, trans., New York: Knopf, Everyman's Library, 2003) p.158.</ref></p></div> | ||
<p class="R">R {{#counter: }} — Well, even in highly scripted interactions, significant interstices can arise — a pause, a faint smile or raised eyebrow, and opportunities to let things pass unnoticed or lightly abetted, the very stuff of tact Michel de Montaigne celebrated it when he recalled his own strict training at the Collège de Guienne. But you are right, the modern world cues behavior at every opportunity. Are laugh tracks going out of style or are they becoming obsolete, audiences well primed without them? Yet I think tactful educating need not depend on interstitial time and space.</p> | <p class="R">R {{#counter: }} — Well, even in highly scripted interactions, significant interstices can arise — a pause, a faint smile or raised eyebrow, and opportunities to let things pass unnoticed or lightly abetted, the very stuff of tact Michel de Montaigne celebrated it when he recalled his own strict training at the Collège de Guienne. But you are right, the modern world cues behavior at every opportunity. Are laugh tracks going out of style or are they becoming obsolete, audiences well primed without them? Yet I think tactful educating need not depend on interstitial time and space.</p> | ||