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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Hi All</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Here are several extracts from an article by Timothy
Radcliffe entitled 'Talking to strangers' which may add another dimension to the
thread initiated and reported on so professionally by Lisa Heft. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>This was given to me by a friend in the course of our
exchanging perspectives on the meaning and implications of 'shooting the
breeze.' </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>A second, separate extract (below) had similar origins,
being a piece to reflect during perambulations of two ex-academics beyond
the high rise of Asia's World City. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I pass them on for those also
enchanted with such matters ...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Go well</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Alan</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Hong Kong </FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Extracts 1</SPAN></B></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">From a<B>n Address Given to
Yale University: <FONT color=#990000>Talking To
Strangers</FONT></B></P></SPAN></B>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><A
href="http://www.opwest.org/Archive/1998/1998_yale.html"><FONT color=#800080
size=3>http://www.opwest.org/Archive/1998/1998_yale.html</FONT></A><FONT size=3>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">How can we learn to talk to strangers? What
conversation can we initiate with those who are different? And what role can the
university play in preparing us for this dialogue?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">One of the functions of the church, and of a
religious Order, is to try to be present in those places of deafness and
incomprehension, to offer a space where conversations may
begin.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">But how in these hard places can we learn to talk to
strangers? I wish to suggest the university should be one of the places in which
we learn to talk to those who are different.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">But if universities are to train
us in the delicate art of talking to strangers, then it is not enough that we
struggle with texts and try to understand the dead. Ultimately a university will
contribute to the building of human community and to the art of dialogue if we
are able to talk with each other. Newman once wrote that if he had to choose
between a university with highly trained professors, rigorous examinations and
which taught the pupils lots of facts, or one in which a lot of young people
merely met and debated with each other, then he would without hesitation choose
the latter. Because the primary function of a university is to teach us to be
social beings, able to talk, to listen and learn from those who are
different.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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size=3>Extract 2 </FONT></STRONG></SPAN></P>
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<H3 style="MARGIN: auto 0in"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">John B.
Bennett, Liberal Learning as Conversation, Liberal Education<BR>Spring
2001<BR>Volume 87, Number 2, <A
href="http://www.aacu.org/liberaleducation/le-sp01/le-sp01bennett.cfm">http://www.aacu.org/liberaleducation/le-sp01/le-sp01bennett.cfm</A><SPAN
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<H3 style="MARGIN: auto 0in"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">"A university is not a machine
for achieving a particular purpose or producing a particular result; it is a
manner of human activity," Oakeshott tells us. It is both a conversation and a
place where one learns how to access the voices and to join in the conversation.
In colleges and universities of integrity more than one voice must be clearly
heard, and the manner (not the mannerisms) of the voices is deliberately taught.
The proper conversation of the college or university involves a rich variety of
intellectual, imaginative, moral, and emotional voices -- each field of special
study "a particular manner of thinking" or a distinctive voice, having "some
insight into its own presuppositions," and each being "easily recognized as
belonging to the single world of learning" (1989, 96, 126, 134,
126).<o:p></o:p></SPAN></H3>
<H3 style="MARGIN: auto 0in"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Oakeshott, Michael (1989)
</SPAN><U><SPAN lang=EN
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