> Hmm--meant to say "not speaking doesn't equal silence."
>
> Nuff said.
>
> Hal
If I am the 'Hmm', Hal, my post was not meaning to contradict your points,
Hal. My riff was A parallel or amplification of possibilities.
As to "silence" as a teaching technique, I like your method. Herb Kohl used
to do something similar. Enter a class and say nothing. there by compelling
the students to question and/or come up with their reasons for being there.
Ironically, in my family, my mom or dad were silent for a long time, it
usually meant somebody in one of their families had died.
By the way, and perhaps for the curious, I like Hal's imageswithoutwords
blog (below). Silences that speak a volume. I still cannot shut-up most of
the time when I am around my own photos!
Stephen V
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> On Nov 26, 2005, at 12:52 PM, Halvard Johnson wrote:
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>> I'm not exactly sure what to explain, but even sensory-deprivation
>> tanks
>> don't even provide real (i.e., complete) silence, as John C. Lilly
>> found. If
>> one doesn't hear sounds from without, one hears sounds from within:
>> the heart, the central nervous system, the blood rushing through the
>> circulatory system, etc. No speaking doesn't equal silence. But I know
>> what you mean, Doug. Those uncomfortable silences take getting used
>> to. When I was teaching, though, I found myself able to maintain
>> silence
>> (my own) until students in discussion classes were so uncomfortable
>> they actually found they had something to say.
>>
>> I imagine that some deaf folks actually "hear" silence even though
>> they
>> can "speak" and be "spoken" by sign, gesture, etc.
>>
>> Hal
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