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Unfortunately, I was unable to post for the last class (or show up for that matter) because of a family emergency. Today, however, I found myself thinking back on several things that have come up in past classes. First, I was reading The Fundamentals of Special Education: A Practical Guide for Every Teacher (Algozine and Yssekdyke, 2006). They begin their book with a definition for Education: “the process of learning and changing as a result of schooling and other experiences” (iibid: 9). I think this definition works fairly well. In relation to this, what would we call a liberal arts education?

Second, I've been refining a thought I had/ comment I made in class last Thursday in regards to Darwin's use of punctuation. I'm particularly interested in his use of exclamation points and rhetorical questions. The exclamation points show an injection of emotion into his text (a clear personal investment in his narrative and his research), it feels as though his use of rhetorical questioning is a reflection of the same kind of cautiousness Anisha is speaking of above; by posing a leading question, it becomes the reader who supplies the answers to what he is proposing. Quite ingenious, Mr. Darwin! Might this be my paper topic...?