When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
By Walt Whitman
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;
When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them;
| When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;
Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself,
n the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.
This poem has always identified with me what education is
supposed to be. We can learn as much as you can but we also have to experience
what we are learning. To me, that is what our education department at my university
is all about. There is a balance between reading, lecturing and memorizing, but
there also comes a time when we have to use our knowledge through experiences.
This education class is a way to display knowledge that will later help with
our experience in the field of teaching.
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