Comments on: Learning to Listen http://www.bdhamilton.com/articles/learning-to-listen?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=learning-to-listen Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:17:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kim http://www.bdhamilton.com/articles/learning-to-listen/comment-page-1#comment-2283 Kim Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:06:41 +0000 http://bdhamilton.com/articles/learning-to-listen#comment-2283 <p>I think this problem is rather systemic to academia as a whole. Since when can you just read and read and research and get to know an author? "Listening" as you say. Nope, it's three weeks of scanning for quotes and another two of rearranging them in a paper and handing it in, scarcely having scratched the surface of the thought before moving on to another topic. </p> <p>I think I might "listen" to Wendell Berry this semester and write about him for my Honors seminar. How sweet is that?</p> I think this problem is rather systemic to academia as a whole. Since when can you just read and read and research and get to know an author? “Listening” as you say. Nope, it’s three weeks of scanning for quotes and another two of rearranging them in a paper and handing it in, scarcely having scratched the surface of the thought before moving on to another topic.

I think I might “listen” to Wendell Berry this semester and write about him for my Honors seminar. How sweet is that?

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