Glad you like the photos, Stephen, but the hmm was for me,
myself, and I, musing over my off typographical fault lines.
"no speaking doesn't equal silence" is interesting, but wasn't
what I meant: i.e., "not speaking doesn't equal silence."
Hal
On Nov 26, 2005, at 2:16 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
>> 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
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>
>
>
> "Once upon a time Baltimore was necessary."
>
>> --Gertrude Stein
>>
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>> On Nov 26, 2005, at 12:52 PM, Halvard Johnson wrote:
>>
>>
>>> 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
>
Hal "Everyone has a right to be stupid
but some people abuse the privilege."
--Joseph Stalin
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