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lil · 3328 days ago · link · · parent · post: What Wittgenstein learned from his time in elementary-school classrooms -- not a headline that is easy to ignore
What an interesting, honest definition of "great teaching": taking your struggle to form a self and engaging in it with others. So what does it mean in concrete terms to struggle to form a self in the context of great teaching? I started to answer that question and saw that it would take a while to get it right. Now I know why the "save draft" button is essential - but I won't save this - I'll post it and, I hope, get back to it.We all struggle to form a self. Great teaching, Wittgenstein reminds us, involves taking this struggle and engaging in it with others; his whole life was one great such struggle. In working with poor children, he wanted to transform himself, and them.