Rhetoric Article
I read some posts by other classmates and found they had the same mind frame as me, that they found this article really dry and boring. I found it intersting in the beginning but as it went on it got more and more 'blah'. There is one part that caught my eye, under Ancient Greece it stated "for modern students today, it can be diffiucult to remember that the wide use and availability of written texts is a phenomenon that was just coming into vogue in Classical Greece. In Classical times, many of the great thinkers spoke thier words; in fact, many of them are known only through the texts that their students and followers wrote down." I couldn't imagine attempting to complete ANY assignments without countless written texts to get information from. It's cool to see how times have changed, I wonder how students coped not being able to have information to look off of?
posted by Shaylene @ 6:07 p.m.
1 Comments:
Yeah it amazes me too that in classical times the great thinkers memorized everything and didnt keep any written notes. It makes me think that even though our day we think we are so smart and advanced really we are dumber then people in those ancient times, we just have more knowledge as a product of time and effort of other people. Like now we have computers, and paper with pen and we have no need to memorize everything, so we take this load of our mind, but back then people had to remember everything, and I find that remerkable. I wish I could memorize books of knowledge like great classical thinkers did.
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