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notice the empty chair that the professor keeps trying to fill
and the little boy’s words that repeatedly dislodge him from his position of mastery.
“un nouveau method” he says
the teacher never learns what he does not know
the little boy, Ernesto, earnestly and wordlessly tries to convey a different sense of the world. finally, frustrated, he leaves. His empty chair evoking the withdrawal from a position of submission in relation to knowledge. His empty chair is yet still more full of potential than the empty chair that the professor-master attempts to occupy.
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what the child knows cannot be conveyed through the same words that the professor uses. the de-linked sound-image couplet suggests that the new method of knowing is between: between sound and image, between word and thing, between sense and meaning.
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