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Gnomic Utterances. These are traditional, and are set at the head of each section of the Guidebook. The reason for them is lost in the mists of History. They are culled by the Management from a mighty collection of wise sayings probably compiled by a SAGE—probably called Ka’a Orto’o—some centuries before the Tour begins. The Rule is that no Utterance has anything whatsoever to do with the section it precedes. Nor, of course, has it anything to do with Gnomes.
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Date: 2008-10-22 06:28 pm (UTC)It's sometimes iffy to teach something you love, especially when you're fairly new to teaching and assume that others will love it. Of course, that's why I debate with senior colleagues who said their job was to teach the love of literature--I kept asking them how they graded for it? I think it's bogus to say a lit prof's job is to teach students to love something--it's wrong in so many ways.
And I've learned how to sneak books I love in, and where/how, to do it, but yeah, it can be a heartbreaking experience, as I've told a number of grad students in my "how to teach literature" grad course (who btw assume that their students will HATE theory and LOVE literature, ahahahahahahahahahahaha).