tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2039160066439602962.post641713012029042088..comments2024-03-27T13:20:02.905-07:00Comments on The Quotidian Reader: Poetic Knowledge: Descartes and his LegacyWillahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17374272000644968446noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2039160066439602962.post-1970054782905826022011-05-14T16:06:17.155-07:002011-05-14T16:06:17.155-07:00"Look at what Descartes has done to us" ..."Look at what Descartes has done to us" indeed! I tend to be more of a poetic learner, at least compared to most people I know. A lot of what I think I know has "come to me all in a flash"--I really identify with that phrase. The funny thing is, though, that I distrust this as a mode of learning <i>for my children</i> so I still spent a lot of their early years--especially for my oldest--trying to teach him using a scientific method, and I distrusted silence or sitting still and thinking, etc.<br /><br />This is turning into group therapy, no? :)<br /><br />So glad blogger is back up...Brandy Vencelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17945305890488681685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2039160066439602962.post-16306664686031048582011-05-10T17:46:47.627-07:002011-05-10T17:46:47.627-07:00I was nodding the whole time! Where were you in my...I was nodding the whole time! Where were you in my college years? I could not "think" because I was too immersed in the completely scientific mode of looking at things. I read but not read, as Taylor says in his critic of Dewey.<br /><br />It's funny. I thought the same. I distrust that part of me too. I wrote before reading your post that I doubt my ability to know poetically, and I said "look at what Descartes has done to us", (grin). <br /><br />Thanks for your fantastic explanation, I agree with your five points, and I particularly agree with the isolation and science as our new religion and the desperation of the postmodern person.Silviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17249978624747684879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2039160066439602962.post-90046434281196976922011-05-10T10:01:19.741-07:002011-05-10T10:01:19.741-07:00Reading your post made me ponder if the push to st...Reading your post made me ponder if the push to start schooling ever younger in our Dewey inspired system is because you need to get children away from their moms otherwise known as "reality touchstones" to get them to fit into the school mode of thinking (or non-thinking). Great post!Sharihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06688602436606146123noreply@blogger.com