Pedagories for the Ignorant and Confused

Pedagogies for the Know Nots
     (ignorant and confused)

What they do and don’t know any
better either and it’s not a matter of
facts & stats & data & information
of the usual kind: nothing you can
transfer, teach, tell, pass on, clue-in:
psst a humankind whisperer.

Clarity is not necessarily a virtue in
poetry, or lyrics, or painting (now
I’m on a roll) or in the classroom
where one expects it.  

Clarity makes good sense giving
directions to Santa Cruz or San
Jose, proper procedures for
thoracic surgery, concern with
economic trends & I guess what’s
going on & on  in the Middle East.

But even there: clarity surely violates
the whole unless your leading a winged
air strike & then violation is what's
expected, clearer the better. .

Ambiguity and ambivalence serve
me well, at least in some contexts.
Not political perhaps.

Differentiate.

In  the classroom I see more and
more the  disadvantage of clarity
& coherence & consistency as
such “virtues” nourish  the false
security necessary for taking care
of  business, sure, but there’s more
to knowing than business care. .
 
So I hate the clarity addiction.
           Knowing better.
I  wouldn’t mind it if it didn’t
dominate. Rule the roost. You'd
think it was next to godliness.  

How can I make good sense with
a clarity-pistol to my head?  Overly
concerned with Coherence grenades.
Consistency insistence? Knowing
what I think before I say it. saying
what I'm going to say, saying it,
and saying what I said?

Gardening in tuxedos.

Humanism: I hate your foolish
consistency the hobgoblin of brittle
mind, measurable outcomes &
predicatable goals. . 

But I know better, know you know
not what you do and so can’t blame
but  wonder how to remind you that
you keep putting your life in your
pants and keep sitting on it: a tactless
recall. and sometimes beautiful art.

Tout comprendre c'est tout pardonne

Need we argue?