POLS 3040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: First Principle
29 Nov 2017
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Everything is in everything, and everything is in telemaque. Student must learn everything in telemaque and then demonstrate his knowing but writing compositions and performing improvisations: must use words and turns of phrase. First principle of universal teaching is that one must learn something and relate everything else to it. System of superiority/inferiority imposed by the school system is more like a mind cage than it is empowerment. Ignorant school master insists on hearing the thinking of a person: whose thinking might never have been valued, demand for verification must be related precisely to the sensory experience of a chosen object of study. Explication is the annihilation of one mind by another. Whoever looks also finds, but it may not be what they were originally looking for: still ends up relating his new findings to things he already knows. Enlightenment recognized that every social actor was a thinking/reasoning being.
