Aeneid by Virgil
As we've discussed in the class, of the educational meaning of 'Aeneid by Virgil' is that, I think, it's quite educationally effective.
From the Aeneid, there are continuous dialectic discussions between characters, which makes Aeneas think and separate between soul and body. It seems like really educational, asking learner's reflection, which is quite different from Homer's, which is possible only through God.
At the same time, it' makes me think of current education, especially in Korea. Aren't we going back to Homer's period? Because there is quite one way transmitting knowledge to the students in Korea, which makes them hard to 'THINK'. We don't have many questions and answers during the class.
Another interesting point is that 'using the object which is familar to that period', like 'shield' seems very innovative. Aren't our kids used to 'visualized image' during this generation? I am the person who clicks 'visualized image' everyday for the communication with my 'Blackberry' phone.
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I agree, you can see the characters in the Aeneid reflecting on things in what we think of as a much more modern way. I also agree that it can be useful to identify similarities between the mimesis Havelock describes as being widespread in Homer's period and current examples of passive learning; on the other hand, I think there is a big difference, which Frank was pointing out in our last class. In the Homeric period, people were basically stuck in their mimetic state all the time, even when they weren't listening to the poem. It seems to me that even in the most one-way transmission models of education today, when children leave the classroom, they are able to think outside the mimetic box, to draw on many cultural and intellectual tools to think abstractly and analytically.
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