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    ON BEING A TEACHER KONARK 13 af Teaching as Provocation SSNeally itis oly agaist the backerop af BUEN tadidon of Gach ing tat one may bes rebeth ‘Thevradiion defines teaching 2d provides means of distinguish. snes S20 A bathing Jaen ‘hear creates costed eae oath Bata wit er ee a sora eno, it ould not ms aes that feally do when ooe teaches?” crane SSO efron hare tel ws for ‘example tat teaching (eine oe a Wh sprees neta ESS) cai and tou produce syste transmission of ad ResEhingisewdedatan scsviny onitng i being other wo ears eon ae IE WIE te cic of wsching, an inane n° Ser soporte ox subwecng mtpower, Teaching a1 Provocation 1st TL Mivlonary process envisaging teachers 28 evangelins of knowledge snd proseyisers of radonaly, conceiving iach, TORR process conceiving acing 2s a mode of produc tion ofexenange-values of owe addressed tate coon or income, andthe mesns of income, sfcient to meet the hasaca op {ve srwing material needs and te demands of waccnsnenctee Sociable teaching stn overeat to povide dows poy ‘ent for Professor's “double-gaduste dangers Til postion process in which cerain Koow/edge obs and comnitve tacks have to be roulnely performed as ay nant rofesion, ‘These seven images of teaching’ donot. ofcourse, provide even aplimpse of wholerangeof ce notionsoftiching. Thess ncoss for example, teaching exer aba background (oof Sears o ebituisof adminsraveorwace union carver pe stcampus 2nd natioa! levels Tesi mobility, expecially forthe scheduled eates and ites nd ober disadvantaged seats and eases —eepanized assenion of gende equality TRA of emer midlife passages such 2s leadership oes in sana edeeadonal, esearch or scien organo, pace laming. United Nations systems signee ‘Tlic creat in public and political fe Gusta how so ‘many politicians Maun thei “professontip” seociteduses, symbolic and instrumental —ofteache fare enzan 0 teaching ‘But fit etme begin witha retospectonca mysefasa teacher” On Being a Teacher tat tbe castoom must be he st for wanamistion of Laowiede ia Als evoludonary complexity and convadicion, Tas required act jest the maser of fields of knowledge but an termes preparation or each clas He was Simply unapprouatin for hours before his las; as one shim g0 tothe clasoom og {ound him fl of nervous teasion, air hy years of tncang oe 2 Bovitne teacher! For him, each class was an cccasion toupee a section in an encyclopaedia of knowledge: each dalogue’an te ‘lassrocm was a staring point for reformulation and resench, ‘Now this great wach is no more: and all we have let ea few Seatered memories. couple of generalons hence only bis boskacel emai: not hs fate or voice. Somehow we have al asepet ae Asineton between th ral” ant writen’ eschng perches wen the teacher, whereas the corpus of writings survives Ih a sense ot Jacques Deda sud ina diferent cone, wing ist “canes oe ‘eah” signifying the absence ofthe speakez, Teaching inte profoundest sease of the word, has always ap- ested to mito be sacra, process in which he betray (f personality is achieved in the least lating fom, processinoticn the washes heres a i were, fie a the alaref Laoag rom the fis yeas of subline wuts, questions “What are you good for athe long ‘ua? And what good can you co or us ere anduow? Thecolesee ISO°e of the class, even oy. in self const scape’ tea hing at Provocation 153 ‘Tey however I might, I could not answer these questions by [stoubuablecisplys of erustion in he clasvoc The second suey, Non begantoanswe fst The good Tcandofor you, {sald to mel! ‘sl say, soy and address te problems offre whieh i yet impregnated with Inowledge that was gathered ins pas when ‘was notmine. Tomethisisthe earl problematic of al eeagogy and (one which requires the wunostfece integrity to keep view ‘The “past which was not mine” sno ice tum of phrase There is simply n0 way. forexample, in which lean siccessfly communicate ‘he uansaction of discourse on natural lw inthe Caboic wsdiion from Thomas Aquinas and Dunus Scns It took me years of emp ‘hy, not jst cradilon, wm eter the spi of theological edition of ‘Ghrisanty and years as well at 10 grisp Abu Haids’s cruel isinon berveea murder and culpable homicide not suming upon the intron as in modem aw, buton the metho of autng death or the juslfcadons of slavery in Antole or touchy in lana, tn ways I cannot aniculate bere, even when it posestes mote ds fupively bauming elevance, {cannot make Ue pas mise, Nor indeed can 1 possibly make my students! future my own, The resent whic share wit them prefigres somewhat thei future, bu Tam already obsolescent Try how hard might simply cannot gasp ‘odern rationality’ which discourses the suet ofsolear weapons the ineviabiliyof some “sat” ened in cxperimentadion with ‘new formsof life, inthe creation andreeies proiesadonf ctally ‘zardous chemical substances. And the word ofthe future it the | wovld of ireversibe advance in scence and echeology wich wil fundamentally ater in ways which {can vaguely iapines the very anception of le and sane trough te ongoing eyberactc sh Dotechnclogy revoltions As a ieacher, eons the site ofaniciltion of both a past ad fun which are netmy owa o a audience for whom he presents tmeely prologue to fuze they wil live or endure a daily reality, ‘Toihe question: “What good.esa you door us” my inchoate answes hasbeen wo offer a critique ofthe past andthe furure with equally Hebwous gronding in boi. I wish for a grote coherence in my | | : | ss On Being a Teacher ‘approach but it has so far eluded me, ‘have found it elaively easier to answer the fst question, a8 {ums out. To this question: "What ae you good for?" says“ Da soe ‘merely look at what sty; look a what fo wih what say" Tstnpe annex cary conviction about what sy fo young nds unless ey see that mean what say about the rveof law, human sights, has ign ‘usthis question whic led mew suuggle successfully foracourse on aw and aborigines at Sydney inthe face of ently comprehen sible faculty opposition. 1s the search fran answer io this qeeanog ‘at hat ed me to bows of socal and legalism ined, a mang a cones, ouside the elssoom. Saccnsconstutea jury every rec, which delemines wheteratcace is gully oro gully of ueatong ‘owiedge asa Brahamini preserve or sing it outed nsae classroom, asa sword ase, asa broom. te badge of infec ofall ke varnay, ‘To my mind, teaching and leaning se acs of social intervention and they are complet when knowledge scumulated ihe edie wey i enriched by knowledge eared ough encounters which incre, 43 yrany, injustice and exploitation enacted before our owneyea ‘evenas we “each and lean ‘This is positon which cams enormous sain: it dsocaes ‘ceived frameworks of scholarship and sience, confuses bond of felevance, disrups agendas of sient work, comands atcounabi iy, in mot excruciating forms, oe casrcom and de society aad fealty (without being exiaustve exposes you oa nagging feeling ‘hat one is wot really good at anything, Lfr ene contin wash tac bad found some ther way answering is fst question Deri ac late for me now to tral over agin, The silent pressure ofthese question as made me lear the uth wbich Paol de Mann celebrated though the phrase: “alos of Dindoess and insist” Even aif wat warsmaning’ knowledge, "realized that was the carer of mighty nescience ino many ware, ‘what donotknow is far greater than what, at any given polactine, {can justly chim to now. Very eal on,{ developed ak appocen teaching as a confessional acy. Everytime Ibe a he frat oy ‘nowledge, Ihave to say, I realize the core of my ignorance, ‘Wrestling with this wut, {eat yet another, specialization is a hig a Provocation Iss so ng actin aconfetioalstviy,Prdcingiaowm of ceninude, specialization reinforce ‘or idelony srg naa undp regards nowleége primarily secon ates: the bedonit primarily a3 set of ‘sa vines he ea approach cemands disciplinary loyaies he hedece Se ot of mlisiplnay renives The resco te ‘objective indetemninaces anh as antes Fs te hednist knowledge ae (wees Say t's sulking meupher)“self-consuming aretaen Put i diferent, ‘8 Welong and te wegh of train: the “dons” entes ie 3 out ober minds through interpersonal communicator acy way eodowmnent that te rationalist aproach seeks to create ig lode, capable of wresting with real fe proseae a stisciplinran mould. The ‘bedonist seek to aaa ‘alning ofthe mind and inculestes& “sft” awareness at he 156 On Being a Teacher ‘ulidimensionaiy of lies problems forth ‘aon’ the

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