James Weinheimer wrote:
>
> Also noteworthy is the statement, "There is very little that students cannot
> find on their own if they are inspired to do so" which is certainly anything
> but my own experience. Using the term "inspiration" seems a bit out of place
> as well. What I have seen is that students take very little interest in
> these matters until they are quite literally forced into it. Some may take a
> genuine, if temporary, interest in their classes, and I believe I have even
> "inspired" some students myself. Still, I find it a very strange use of the
> term. Someone's "inspiration" can't help them much when they are "finding."
> Instead, people have to know how to use the tools at their disposal.
>
Yes. Inspiration (or intuition) without knowledge runs into error as
surely as a belief without skepticism ends up in superstition.
But maybe the "inspired" in the above quote is just a mistaken choice
of term and the intention was something like "guided" or "shown" or at
least wouldn't exclude that.
B.Eversberg
Received on Tue Jun 23 2009 - 06:20:22 EDT