Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Once in Blue Moon...
...a student will surprise you.
I had my students write an essay last week.
As I read a particular student's essay, I was surprisingly enlightened, my eyes opening to an idea I have never even thought about.
Basically, what a student taught me, is that humans must know evil in order to know good. He went on to explain that for a person to truly, absolutely know they are doing good, then they must know in some way what doing evil looks like.
Maybe you knew this already, but my mind automatically began to think about all (as he put it) the Yin/Yang in life. We must know sadness to know happiness. We must know fear to know courage.
Anyway, I was happy to give this kid a B+. Then I was tempted to ask why he doesn't put his intelligence to work harder to pass my class. *sigh* Kids...
Here is the first link I found to the article the essay was about.
http://lotf1.wikispaces.com/Essay+by+William+Golding
I had my students write an essay last week.
As I read a particular student's essay, I was surprisingly enlightened, my eyes opening to an idea I have never even thought about.
Basically, what a student taught me, is that humans must know evil in order to know good. He went on to explain that for a person to truly, absolutely know they are doing good, then they must know in some way what doing evil looks like.
Maybe you knew this already, but my mind automatically began to think about all (as he put it) the Yin/Yang in life. We must know sadness to know happiness. We must know fear to know courage.
Anyway, I was happy to give this kid a B+. Then I was tempted to ask why he doesn't put his intelligence to work harder to pass my class. *sigh* Kids...
Here is the first link I found to the article the essay was about.
http://lotf1.wikispaces.com/Essay+by+William+Golding
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