Annie Dillard explores the implications in her essay Teaching a Stone to Talk.
An answer to the question of why these "alternative ways of knowing" should be taught in science courses is supplied by Michael J. Reiss in his concluding essay, "Teaching about Origins in Science: Where Now?" The strongest argument, in my view, for teaching about religion in a science class, whether at school, college or university, is if it helps students better to understand science.
That's a lesson the essay teaches me every time I give one a try.
"Ambrose's little essay taught me that on D-Day we had one toss of the dice and that was it for us.
Montaigne's "Essays" teach people how to live.
That may be partly Leopold's fault: though the elder Mozart was an accomplished violinist whose "Essay on Teaching the Violin With Accuracy," published in 1756, the year of Mozart's birth, was required reading for violinists at the time, he schooled his son primarily in the art of the keyboard.
In an essay on teaching her kids to feel good about sex, she writes about her decision to put a colorful bag of condoms on one of the top shelves in the kids' bathroom, just so they get used to the idea for when the time comes (her youngest is now 5).
Check out Jamaal's posting on the Poetry Foundation website, where you will find his essay about teaching poetry in iO classrooms, and be sure to attend his reading along with Tarfia Fazullah (also, an iO teaching poet) at Signal Return in the Eastern Market on February 20.
In her collection of essays, Teaching A Stone To Talk, she describes her first sight of the Alaskan Arctic: "I stood on the island's ocean shore and saw what there was to see: a pile of colorless stripes.
In his 1946 essay, Russell teaches his "laymen" readers to think more objectively about emotive issues: "When, in a sentence expressing political opinion, there are words that arouse powerful but different emotions in different readers, try replacing them by symbols, A, B, C, and so on and forgetting the particular significance of the symbols.
Whether their career communication channel is a resume, an interview, a cover letter, or an application essay, we teach the same basic process.
