If you were in prison with someone like Dantes for years, how exactly would you teach them? What subjects, and how exactly, given that you have no books in the cell and no paper or pen?
What would your syllabus be and your method?
Read the book & you'll find out...
shareI have read it.
Can anyone answer the question intelligently?
Then you should remember that the Abbe Faria had read & re-read so many volumes of science, maths, languages, history & culture that he was able to teach much of what he knew to Dantes over the 10 years they were in prison together principally through memory alone, but also via the the strips of bed sheets he'd managed to write on.
shareI would do what his teacher did, acquiring the necessary materials and relying heavily on my superior polymath knowledge and memory. The syllabus would include finance and investment strategy, law, math, science and engineering, and whatever else he wished to learn.
What would you do?
A person's a person, no matter how small. -- Dr. Seuss
Thanks for your reply but I have to admit I don't have a clue how I would go about it. I suppose it would depend enormously on the personality of the teacher, and I just don't have the right personality to teach in this way...or any!
I just found the whole idea of teaching someone like that in prison fascinating, though...
If you have any other thoughts, please let me know...
Thanks again,
Paul.
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Get back to me when you have!
shareup until the mid 20th century, learning by heart was a makor part of education. Children learnt poems, times tables, rules of grammer etc by heart. a man of the old ptisoner's generation and class would have had latin and Greek dinned into him at school ( and would have been thrashed if he couldn't remember it). university students likewise were expected to be able to recite long passages from classical authors, philosophers etc. He would be carrying a lot of information around in his head to pass on. dantes would learn by heart what was passed onto him.
shareup until the mid 20th century, learning by heart was a major part of education. Children learnt poems, times tables, rules of grammer etc by heart. a man of the old ptisoner's generation and class would have had latin and Greek dinned into him at school ( and would have been thrashed if he couldn't remember it). university students likewise were expected to be able to recite long passages from classical authors, philosophers etc. He would be carrying a lot of information around in his head to pass on. dantes would learn by heart what was passed onto him.
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