Influential Books
Influential Books | Yvonne Beaudry | January 18th, 2005
What book outside of our field has influenced your work or study? I will of course answer these but I want to wait for some response first.
Yvonne
Re: Influential Books | Maria Leeham | January 18th, 2005
Dworetsky's Psychology - big tome of a textbook for first year undergrad Psychology. Really, it's stuff on social psychology, group theory, how everyone will stand around and wait for someone else to make the first move. Interesting to see how people function in groups.
Best wishes,
Maria
Re: Influential Books | Jerry Talandis Jr. | February 1st, 2005
Hi all,
I'll take a stab at this one:
On Jan 18, 2005, at 10:51 AM, Yvonne Beaudry wrote:
2) What book outside of our field has influenced your work or study?
That's actually a harder question than I first thought, as I can't include any books directly about education (if I could, I'd put down "The Courage to Teach" by Parker Palmer).
A book outside of education that helped me with it... hmmm... The Bible, of course! :-), and also "The Prophet," by Khalil Gibran. Here's the part of that book that influenced me:
On Teaching
Then said a teacher, "Speak to us of Teaching."
And he said: No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of our knowledge.
The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.
If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.
The astronomer may speak to you of his understanding of space, but he cannot give you his understanding.
The musician may sing to you of the rhythm which is in all space, but he cannot give you the ear which arrests the rhythm nor the voice that echoes it.
And he who is versed in the science of numbers can tell of the regions of weight and measure, but he cannot conduct you thither.
For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.
And even
as each one of you stands alone in God's knowledge, so must each one of you
be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the earth.
Jerry
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