The assorted finds of Artefact Publishing
I realised today that what I want my Old English class to be is a small group of really bright people sitting around talking knowledgeably about Beowulf, with me there contributing as I may and absorbing everything else. I want to sit at the feet of a teacher and learn.
Now, this is not to say that I don’t want to do research and so forth. There are, in any subject I am generally interested in, a lot of specific things that I might be curious about — it is simply not feasible to personally investigate all of these things; rather, I would investigate those that I already knew to be of great interest. Hence the benefit of having other people around, of whom I could ask questions and so learn enough about the curious bits to know whether I wished to pursue them further, or not at all, or whether there was a middle ground of wanting to listen to someone else tell me some stuff about it and then move on.
I have no practical idea of how to create such an ideal class for myself.
Posted by jamie on March 10, 2004 20:29+13:00