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Paragraph Six - The Golden Thread Through a Can of Spam
Let’s pick up the string from last week’s blog post, and see where it leads, then. DaVinci’s exhortation to “realize that everything connects to everything else” is surely the answer to the problem of students who “set about forgetting” (as Sancho Panza put it) what they have learned. I made the claim that making the connections will lead us along the golden thread to the pedagogical version of Blake’s “Heaven’s gate” as opposed to the...