Friday, February 20, 2015
Siddhartha
Firstly, I find it very interesting and true how Siddhartha believes experience is his best teacher. If anything, every teacher must insert some part of their personal beliefs in their way of teaching. Siddhartha, in a way, was held back by all these ways of teaching because they didn't completely correlate with himself and his frustrations. He looked inward to teach himself, to stop running from himself.
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You make a great point, Daisy. What I find interesting is Siddhartha's mature personality and his wisdom of knowing that experience being better than being taught. I think we are all different--some of us feel held back by our teachers, like Siddhartha feels, and some of us genuinely enjoy being taught, just as Govinda does.
ReplyDeleteWhen you say he looked inward to teach himself, what exactly do you mean? Is there a part in the story you can refer me to?
The following chapters explain that he is tired of being taught by the Samanas; however, he still wishes to be taught how to love. We get a better understanding of his character as he begins to see that even he can't truly love.
ReplyDeleteI agree, every teacher practices a certain educational philosophy. Siddhartha is so used to being taught with memorization and just believing; none of the approaches were really "hands-on", so when he goes to learn from Kamala it's a different kind of teaching because it also involves experience
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Daisy. I like how you pointed out the fact that most teachers add in some of their own personal beliefs or experiences in their teachings. Maybe that is why Siddhartha never connected to it, maybe once he experiences something for himself he will finally find who he is.
ReplyDeleteI really like where you're coming from Daisy. Anybody can learn better by experiencing an event(s) that brought them to the realization for themselves rather than reading it from a book or a diagram. All of this reminds me of ECAP/geography when we had to learn all those different teaching styles & which one we were most comfortable with.
ReplyDeleteI very much agree with your post. Yesterday however while reading at home it made me think in a different perspective. Could Siddhartha be making excuses for himself ? I mean he says that he had to go through the experiences he went through not that it was necessary to reach his om.
ReplyDeleteI find it very interesting that he refused to just allow the doctrine to envelop him without experiencing the world for himself in order to validate his beliefs.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Daisy. What I love about this book is that the themes are universal. No matter what time era you live in whether it was today, 70 years ago, or 70 years from now, everyone can relate to Siddhartha. I think that everyone is defiant in their own way and the only way believe something or learn something is through experience and that is exactly what Siddhartha is doing.
ReplyDeleteI also like that they are univeral themes. I just found it ironic how at some point he was talking about not being taught anymore and then he asks kamara to teach him and ends up with the ferryman to teach him.
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