What China Can Teach Writing Teachers
Clay Burrell,
Beyond School,
Jul 02, 2010
The key think the 'common core' people get wrong is that there are other ways to see the world. This is drawn out evocatively by Clay Burell as he describes some recent work in Chinese literary theory. He writes, "Nisbett's whole point in this book of 'cultural psychology' is to show that modes of thought differ from culture to culture, that Enlightenment universalism is belied by the evidence, etc, etc. The point of the passage itself is to illustrate how unlike our abstract and essentialist Greek way of thinking is the Chinese, which resists hard categories and prefers, as Nisbett puts it, 'expressive, metaphoric language.'"
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