Here Come the Allodidacts
Here Come the Allodidacts
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Section titled “Highlights”- I had forgotten about this. It had been a long time since I’d taught, many years of solitary reading, and when I imagined what the program would do for its participants, I thought exclusively about the individual, the possibility of personal transformation in relation to a text. What I learned is that the highest purpose of a text may be the conversations it enables. I am reminded of a certain yoga teacher who is known to say that the poses are not the point; the poses exist to provide a conduit for the breath. The text exists to provide us with an opportunity to talk about it, to commune together through it. We gathered, in the program, to read together; we read together as an occasion for gathering.
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- I turned to books for companionship, but the truth is that reading can be incredibly lonely. How often had I encountered something in the forest of words —a strange beast of the mind, a revelation in the form of the campfire’s flicker— only to despair upon realizing no one else would get to experience it with me?