Enjoying a prolonged read

Reading Parker Palmer at the moment, and thoroughly enjoying To Know as We Are Known.

We do not learn best by memorizing facts about the subject. Because reality is communal, we learn best by interacting with it. In the practical disciplines, this may mean working with materials, creating artifacts, and solving problems. In the more abstract disciplines, it may mean learning how scholars generate, criticize, and use the concepts and data of their fields. In a wide variety of ways, good teachers bring students into living communion with the subjects they teach.
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