Zen... Incredible book. I've read it with new eyes three or four times
over the decades. The margins of my copy are filled with scribbled notes in
different inks and different handwritings. Amazing to see how my
handwriting has changed over the years! The pages are brittle, slightly
tea-colored (the acid in the paper, I'm thinking) and the dog ears are
dog-eared. Where I've run out of margin, I've got stapled bits of paper
(from the days before sticky notes).
There are only four other books that I have worked over this intensely: "The
Greening of America" by Charles Reich, a collection of the works of Karl
Marx, "The Marx Engels Reader", edited by Robert Tucker, Stephen Hall's
"Mapping the Next Millenium", and Rudolf Arnheim's "Visual Thinking". I've
read lots of other books, but these five keep pulling me back. And Pirsig's
Zen was, for me, the first book that really just stopped me in my tracks.
It is breathtaking and emotionally powerful.
What a great thing to wake up and read Renee's post, and then to read the
nods and smiles that followed!
Feeling good!
- Dave
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Joy" <[email protected]>
To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group"
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Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2009 8:13 AM
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Professionalism-zmm
Me too, thanks Renee for talking about this book, and for showing me the
beauty of his words and thoughts. I'd even venture to say that a book talk
may be in order. Anybody game?
Joy/NC/4
How children learn is as important as what they learn: process and content
go hand in hand. http://www.responsiveclassroom.org
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From: thomas <[email protected]>
To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group
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Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 2:40:08 PM
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Professionalism-zmm
I am just going to finally have to read it! Too many people I admire have
loved it over and over.
sally
On 6/19/09 10:39 AM, "Renee" <[email protected]> wrote:
Funny. I was at our local espresso place yesterday having lunch and my
copy was on the table. The owner was wandering around, spied the book,
and asked, "How many times have you read this, now?" I thought it was
pretty funny that he automatically assumed I was rereading it. He said
he hadn't read it for about twenty years and that it might be time to
reread. He also recommended a book by Buckminster Fuller, called
Critical Path, which he said he has read several times. I haven't
checked that out yet.
Anyway, for those who don't know ZMM, yesterday I read the part about
how Phaedrus experimented in his university writing class by giving no
grades until the end of the semester, how students reacted to that, and
his assertion that we, including students, already know what quality is
even if we can't define it, and that the writing process itself is more
important than knowing the rules about writing. And how this is all
wrapped up together.
Sound familiar?
Renee
On Jun 19, 2009, at 10:23 AM, [email protected] wrote:
In a message dated 6/19/2009 12:53:19 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
Right now, I am rereading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,
which is more about teaching than it is about motorcycles. Or Zen. Or
Art.
You addicted me to that book!!!!
I would say it is much about life!
Nancy
"El fin de toda educacion debe ser seguramente el servicio a otros."
~ Cesar Chavez
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