Unmediated honesty without adaptation counts as pedagogical negligence

Evidence

The teacher who insists on delivering the truth in its most unmediated form, regardless of whether the student can bear it, is not admirably honest — she is pedagogically negligent. Williams notes that upāya-kauśalya generates a paradox that Mahāyāna commentators spent centuries unpacking: if the teacher adapts the teaching to the audience, how does the student ever encounter the teaching in its unmodified form? The answer the tradition gives is that the student encounters it only when she has been prepared — prepared, characteristically, by a succession of adaptive, graduated, non-coercive pedagogical engagements. — , The Rod and the Child, 3934

Categorization

• XREF: Inverts the common Western instinct that brutal honesty is a virtue in teaching; conflicts with ‘spare the rod’ traditions already examined. — connects to: Buddhist tradition has a consistent anti-coercive pedagogical ethic — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 4006; Scholarship is a civil conversation rather than a contest over truth — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 333

Related

• Buddhist tradition has a consistent anti-coercive pedagogical ethic (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Scholarship is a civil conversation rather than a contest over truth #complicates (0.60) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 333
• Buddhist tradition has a consistent anti-coercive pedagogical ethic #corroborates (0.55) — , The Rod and the Child, 4006