Martin Owen (t.m.owen@bangor.ac.uk)
Mon, 7 Dec 1998 10:42:49 +0000
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 10:42:49 +0000 From: Martin Owen <t.m.owen@bangor.ac.uk> Subject: Re: [ifets] Teachers and Technology Refusal and cabbages and k
>Martin, how well would Blake's poetry be known without formal
>education? We should remember that in his time all schools were
>Church schools, and it's the doctrinaire repression of the innocent
>spirit he hates most, not formal learning per se. His comments on
>churches are even more riveting: eg the suggestion by one of his
>'innocents' that people would worship better in an alehouse because
>it is a warmer and happier place than the church (hmmm, shools as
>well?) or the wonderful lines,
Interesting point Chris.... however to echo the priests in black gowns
theme a bit further...
I had a Welsh education <<and did not know of Jerusalem until I encountered
it at English football grounds (oval balls). <My knoweldge of Blake has
come entirely from informal education.>>
More to the eclesiatical point, I went to school in the valley where Gerard
Manley Hopkins trained for the priesthood. He wrote many poems about the
area, and he adopted many of the alitearative forms of Welsh poetry.
However, Hopkins was not "on the syllabus". I had to learn the Lakeland
poets, in a way that drove me away from poetry for many years.
I am quite in favour of formal education (training teachers is my core
business). However I thint it can be done better.
I like alehouses, and left a bar the other night with lots of lesson noted
on the backs of beer mats.
Martin Owen
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