Socratic questioning, proving a point with evidence, digging beneath the surface for hidden meanings, restating an opponent’s position well, persuasion and debate – is a sort of foreign language to many of today’s students.
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The Violent Bear it Away has some surprising insights for educators. Flannery knew, as she acknowledged in a letter, that her “modern reader will identify himself with the schoolteacher [George Rayber], but it is the old man [Mason Tarwater, the seemingly crazy backwoods prophet] who speaks for me.”
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