Author Walker Percy is one of those individuals. He theorizes that through the modern-day educational process, the student loses a great deal of learning through educational “packaging” such as teachers, textbooks and directions. To support his argument he compares two individuals, a Falkland Islander observing a dogfish that washes ashore and a biology student dissecting the same fish in a laboratory experiment.

Percy argues that the islander better experiences the being that is the fish, whereas the biology student observes only a specimen of the fish, and the difference is that this specimen is part of the educational package. The term specimen makes the fish one of many, and no different from the tools, instructors, biological jargon and peers aro

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