Interpretation provokes self-action in the listener rather than instructing him

Evidence

Whether we call it so or not, the interpreter is engaged in a kind of education. It is not the classroom kind. It is, if you will, a proffer of teaching; but it is not the professorial sort. It aims not to do something to the listener, but to provoke the listener to do something to himself. … If the interpreter feels this to be so, he can project that feeling. Not by a preachment about it. Heavens, no. It is something to be felt, not analyzed. If deeply felt, it can be communicated. — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 633

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core statement of interpretation-as-provocation, provocation being the whole of Tilden’s second principle.
• SEED: Angle: ‘do something to the listener vs. provoke the listener to do something to himself’ as a test for any pedagogy, sermon, or lecture far beyond nature centers.
• recurring: this claim recurs 3 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Interpretation fails unless it connects to the visitor’s own personality — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 141; Self-critique drives deeper immersion into the interpreted object — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 473; Understanding speech requires projecting oneself toward the speaker’s possible ends. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1216 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Self-critique drives deeper immersion into the interpreted object #expands (0.78) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 473
• Understanding speech requires projecting oneself toward the speaker’s possible ends. #expands (0.72) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1216