Abstract

Don’t teach them writing. Don’t teach them reading. Teach them the habit of giving reasons for what they think, and explain how reading and writing can help them do that. If the basic goal of general education is instilling and exercising the habit of giving reasons, the apt way to characterize the larger commitment of education is that it should be diffi cult and, more exactly, that it is about intellectual diffi culty as something to be sought and about being diffi cult as a way to be. —James F. Slevin

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Pedagogy
Published
2005-04-01
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10.1215/15314200-5-2-167
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