[B-Greek] Never underestimate your students (was something about Pachyderms and other thick-skinned creatures)

Oun Kwon kwonbbl at gmail.com
Fri Feb 19 16:01:34 EST 2010


On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com> wrote:
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>
> I have learned more from students over the years than I have from most of
> the textbooks I ever used. Sometimes it's been a matter of questions raised
> by students that led to research and discovery of fascinating -- and useful --
> truths about Greek and linguistic history. Sometimes it's been a matter of
> students questioning the conventional explanations and illuminating the
> issues freshly.
>
> This is not unrelated to one of our recurrent observations about commentaries:
> so often they seem to ignore the questions you really have about the text
> they are explicating and to explain all sorts of things that you didn't (and
> still don't) want to know. On the other hand there are some real gems of
> commentaries that illuminate and astound in ways passing understanding.
>
> What that means, I think, is something we've noticed before: Pedagogical
> tradition, which is both a bane and a benison, still rests upon the shoulders
> of generation after generation of the students of the language.
>
> Carl W. Conrad


Not only to Greek, this also applies to reading-studying-learning the
Scripture - our lifelong process.

I have learned more from questioning and from getting questions from
people of other views or even opposite views. To know I don't know is
the beginning of learning.

Oun Kwon.



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