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Commentary #6
Adam Russell Learning Revealed According to Walker Percy, the classroom is a filter that takes the real experience away from the student. Students benefit when they “avoid the educator’s direct presentation of the object as a lesson to be learned and reassert the sovereignty of knower over known” (9). It’s true that teachers... »
Percy Commentary #6
Maria Shreve Dr. DeVries English 5870 03 March 2009 After reading Percy’s “The Message in the Bottle: Howe Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What the One Has to Do with the Other,” I am struck with my own thought: how queer Percy and his essay both are. Perhaps this is why after being in... »
Commentary #6-Percy
I think this reading got much more in depth into the theory of perception than I was prepared for. It took the idea of the “most photographed barn in America” to a new place for me. But as much as I appreciate Percy’s effort to explain and give examples, I have to agree with... »