in the transforming power of literature is surely requisite for the teacher who would teach with passion and conviction. It is a faith expressed uncommonly well by Emerson some thirty years before Arnold:Literature is a point outside of our hodiernal [present-day] circle through which a new one may be described. The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it.
from Daily Times: Purple Patch: The decline and fall of literature --Andrew Delbanco
~~~~~~~~~~~
No comments :
Post a Comment