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Hilary McGowan's picture

Science! Do not question!

I won't lie that in saying that I am extremely excited in reading Whitman. I have always meant to pick up Leaves of Grass for years now. I didn't have trouble trying to understand the class conversation of divergence and all the dfferent ways that were being explained, perhaps it is just because I've heard most of it all before. What was the most interesting to listen to was how people questioned the divergence in class. This is science! We are not supposed to question what the professor is saying! Or that's what has been shoved into my head since I was a child. You listen to science, and understand like our betters have understood it before us. I hope that I get to hear people question the science and ask why more often in my career here.

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