We all teach students a massive body of material to get some sort of mastery of it, pass a judgement, and defend it.
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I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion.William Scott
Wait a minute I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff. During a briefing military stuff in which officials began telling him about missile silos.
William Scott
I feel I can't teach you anything, what I can do is organize some material that may seem wildly complex when you first take a look at it. I've been working at it for such a long time I can at least organize it. So you can go home and teach yourself how to get control of it... I could throw an act, I can tell jokes and try to be stimulating, I can organize the books. If you don't want to do it, I can't do anything about it.
William Scott
When I was an undergraduate at Princeton, freshman year, first term, I ended up in the course on Plato's Republic. That book just captivated me - not because of the answers, and the answers can be somewhat unsatisfying, but because of the questions, the way you went at it, the methods, the kinds of questions you could ask, the different answers you could get. That's why I'm still fascinated by that book.
William Scott
There are certain authors that do not turn students on it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them.
William Scott
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