Understanding Something In One Way Does Not

There Is A Deep Question Whether The Possible Meanings That Emerge From An Effort To Explain The Experience Of Art May Not Mask The Real Meanings Of A Work Of Art.

Surely Knowledge Of The Natural World, Knowledge Of The Human Condition, Knowledge Of The Nature And Dynamics Of Society, Knowledge Of The Past So That One May Use It In Experiencing The Present And Aspiring To The Future--all Of These, It Would Seem Reasonable To Suppose, Are Essential To An Educated Man. To These Must Be Added Another--knowledge Of The Products Of Our Artistic Heritage That Mark The History Of Our Esthetic Wonder And Delight.

The Agentive Mind Is Not Only Active In Nature, But It Seeks Out Dialogue And Discourse With Other Active Minds. And It Is Through This Dialogic, Discursive Process That We Come To Know The Other And His Points Of View, His Stories. We Learn An Enormous Amount Not Only About The World But About Ourselves By Discourse With Others.

Learners Are Encouraged To Discover Facts And Relationships For Themselves.

Being Able To "go Beyond The Information" Given To "figure Things Out" Is One Of The Few Untarnishable Joys Of Life.