education comes from where?

In Caputo’s book More Radical Hermeneutics while making a point gives the following example, children today go online and study about Greek tragedy. The ease in which they are able to access this knowledge colors their understanding and learning about the Greek idea, one of struggle and difficulty.

Though Caputo doesn’t say much more in relation to this example, I find it all so very interesting. It is so easy for me to forget how one is embedded into a certain way of learning which inherently limits how they learn.

I couldn’t help but stop and wonder about how I myself learn, or even how my children learn and how I teach them. Though deconstruction is so very stimulatig, it makes some many things so very difficult. What certain things need a different context from which to be studied? What things have I maligned by studying them from my armchair?