"The child admists, is learning the action of light, motion, gravity, muscular force; and in the game of human life, love, fear, justice, appetite, man, and God interact. These laws refuse to be adequatley stated. They will not be written out on paper, or spoken by the tongue. They elude our persevering thought; yet we read them hourly in each other's faces, in each other's actions, in our own remorse."
Experience is taken for granted. As the average student sits in the classroom only thinking of getting out and looking out. Sitting day in and day out learning about other's experience's but not confronting the experience face to face; by just living our lives. Emerson is stating that we learn everything we learn just by experiencing life. We move through life with mistakes, decisions, and best of all choices. The human society has put us into buildings for just to observe others that are living not wasting. So let's create our own stories, have our own experiences, and learn from it all and not from others.
Austin,
ReplyDeleteAs a reader, I admire the way you seize on this quotation to offer up a very 'Emersonian' critique of education; however, I was frustrated that you didn't pursue your own good ideas further. Try and push yourself to write more in future posts!