Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Notes

10/18

Literacy
Didactic: teaching morals, nationalism, etiquette, very pragmatic: don't drink from a hot tea kettle.

Humor: what is nature?

Metaphysical/Physical
speculative
-become less of a child

*"all children's lit. deals with our Adult nostalgia/idealized longing for home"*

Harriot Beacher Stowe

1.
  • If we show them nature, they'll think about god. (influence from protestant reformation, and gutenberg; anyone can read.
  • 1650: John Eliot; natives of masachusets to learn to read published in Elgonquin, two world views colliding."why do english men hate snakes?" Thought process: natives are like children

2.

  • Enlightenment: dieism rather than theism
  • Rational person can be good
  • Charles Willson Peter; museum of artifacts like skeletons, creates cracks in world view. Learn but don't Question
  • Darwins Origin, images conflict with text
  • Iconoclasm: shattering of the image
  • Facsimile: look like old one
  • Noah Webster; blue back spell, regularizing spelling for an american language
  • teaching children to think

"How do I know what I think untill I see what I say"

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