The ear-drowning, mind-deadening, vision-killing flood of official and didactic discourse about art — discourse isn't merely non-art but the active antithesis of art and an obstacle to seeing.
Van Peebles knew that in order to spread his message, the film "simply couldn't be a didactic discourse which would end up playing to an empty theater except for ten or twenty aware brothers who would pat me on the back and say it tells it like it is" and that "to attract the mass we have to produce work that not only instructs but entertains".
Buddhist sutras are rather didactic texts, discourses, or sermons, possibly deriving their name from the sense in which they carry the thread of the tradition of the Buddha's teachings.
Nanak's use of music and poetry as a medium to teach and share is a classic example: his commission was to sing true praises to an unknowable God, which suggests the use of a more redolent and rapturous medium than the usual didactic or moralizing discourse -- precisely because Nanak's experience of the Divine was as one that is beyond ordinary religious definition, Hindu or Muslim.
Above all, Baraka — who, of course, was a poet — wrote criticism like a poet; the arm's-length didactic authority of journalistic discourse was not for him.
The interdependence of teaching objectives, content, and methods represents the traditional European discourse on didactics (e.g., Bromme 1995; Hopmann and Riquarts 1995).
The French Revolution, for example, could be the subject of at least four forms of discourse: investigative, narrative, didactic, and discussive (mixtures of these being found in most historical works).
Action competence offers a constitutive element of the German vocational system and a significant topic of scientific and political discourse since the early 1980s, particularly in relation to the didactic implications of action regulation theory (Hacker, 1986; Kuhl, 1994a1994b; Volpert, 1983).
And elsewhere Long's yah-boo-sucks level of political discourse feels like a function of her anxiety about being didactic.
Obama suffers from what Andrew Hacker, in a trenchant article in the August 18 New York Review of Books, calls a "didactic disposition" shared by a string of Democratic presidents and candidates: "wordy discourse not connected with clear plans for action".
On the other hand, teaching can be didactic but clinically integrated – an example of this would be a one-way discourse by a clinical teacher to students on a ward-round (classical bed-side teaching).
