Revered teachers project the soul of things behind mere information

Evidence

The reason why our college graduates, in past decades, have spoken with such reverence and affection of certain of their teachers— such men as Copeland and Charles Eliot Norton of Harvard and Bumpus of Brown, to name just three among many—was because such men by universality of mind instinctively went behind the body of information to project the soul of things. — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 108

Categorization

• QUESTION: Tilden reads these famous teachers as proto-interpreters — worth chasing the Bumpus example that ‘never forgot that the feeling of an exhibit… was quite as important as its factual truthfulness.’
• recurring: this claim recurs 3 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Knowing in fragments and listening without mastery can be legitimate ways of learning — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 347; Treating teaching as sacred work enables the deepest student learning; Witnessing a teacher embody their theory inspires students more than written work can (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Knowing in fragments and listening without mastery can be legitimate ways of learning #expands (0.75) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 347