{"id":33577,"date":"2017-09-21T01:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T05:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=33577"},"modified":"2017-09-10T09:43:03","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T13:43:03","slug":"qotd-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/09\/21\/qotd-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"

At every level, our society has been idiotized, in fulfilment of the democratic ideal. As I am reminded by each and every remark, from all candidates in televised political debates, we are now living in Flatworld.<\/p>\n

God created, and continues to create, men and women of extraordinary diversity, in natural interests, native motor abilities, and the potential for what the Greeks called \u201cgenius.\u201d That is to say, not simply brains, but what can be done with the brain you were provided.<\/p>\n

I have noticed from my own teaching experience that, the smaller the class, the harder on a teacher. This is because the needs of individuals can better be discerned. The hardest teaching is under the old, indeed mediaeval, tutoring system: the one-to-one that used to be standard in places like Oxford and Cambridge, which continued to distinguish them from the drive-in, red-brick, fake universities. For at that \u201ctutorial\u201d level, student and teacher are both fully exposed, each to the strengths and limitations of another, non-abstract, human mind. It becomes impossible to \u201cgo through the motions.\u201d<\/p>\n

And it is like this, ultimately, in the tutoring of Christ Our Saviour. Every one of His students is a difficult case; the smart ones usually the most difficult. And so, likewise, with parent and child; with master and apprentice. It is so, by analogy, wherever men try to teach one another. The sermons and parables, the public lectures, are only the beginning of it. Then comes a process of discovery: \u201cWhich part of this do you not understand?\u201d<\/p>\n

Compare: the ideal of the \u201clowest common denominator,\u201d appropriate perhaps for the management of pigs and cattle, on a large industrial farm. But evil when applied to human beings.<\/p>\n

David Warren, “Democracy versus God”, Essays in Idleness<\/em><\/a>, 2015-11-10.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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