To my tedious post on `Practical responsibility,’ I’ve added a few words just in case someone misunderstands the the intent of my anecdote on the manager at Eli Lilly. Furthermore, I hope no one interprets my remarks as a discouragement of input from students.
To be a bit theoretical (or mystical), there is a rather age-old tension in education between
1. the intellectual gains of dialectic (e.g., argumentation); and
2. the spiritual gains of acceptance.
This is well-known, but I wished to relate this tension somewhat to mundane matters, perhaps from the perspective of the side that gets less explicit attention (I think). Of course there is no way to decide on one or the other once and for all.
