Slides: The Enemy of Learning

The Enemy of Learning

Students must learn that to read well is to
engage in a self-constructed dialog
with the author of a text.

Such is an intellectual work that:
Connects new ideas to already learned ideas
Corrects mistaken ideas when necessary.

The Vague Reader

It wanders from paragraph to paragraph.
It draws no clear distinction between its own thinking and the author’s thinking.
It reads fragmented.
It is uncritical, it judges an author’s view to be correct only if that view concurs with its own beliefs.
It is self-deceived, it fails to see itself as undisciplined.
It is rigid, it does not learn from what it reads. 
It is uncritically intermixed with prejudices, biases, myths, and stereotypes.
It lacks insight into how minds create meaning and how reflective minds monitor and evaluate as they read.