Pre-reading

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Joseph,

 

> I agree that schools should beware of overloading classes, but having been

> through the regimen of required pre-reading sets myself and requiring them

> of incoming students, I have seen that students still need some kind of

> setpiece just at the very beginning, some kind of touchstone to get

[ . . .]

 

Understood. It sometimes seems to me that we address everything as a

matter of changing curriculum or adding classes. There is something to be

said for the human interaction that the comes from a self-directed search

for a teacher, immersion with fellow students, particularly as regards any of

the martial arts, traditional crafts or fine arts. In my opinion, one of the

best ways to gain a working sense of how Asian peoples think is to have

dinner at each other's place, to talk while sweeping the dojo, to engage the

basic human stuff.

 

Bob

 

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