Lab Reflection

The structure of our lab on Saturday left me thinking about the classroom setting and the difference between Eastern and Western schooling. During class I realized how much I rely on my teachers to guide my thinking. They ask a question, and I answer it. My thinking is guided and in some ways limited by that goal of reaching a destination. So when Rebecca asked us simply to meditate on the passages on Saturday, I think a lot of us felt lost. Where were the questions? If there were no questions to answer, what were we supposed to be doing? What were we supposed to be thinking? After we were left alone with our passages and the sculptures, I read and re-read the paper in front of me. I didn't have anything to fall back on, no question to guide my thinking, so every idea I had felt completely original. I spent more time with the reading because there was no destination. I couldn't answer a few questions and then sit around waiting for everyone else to be finished, so I took my time. I had a better understanding of the message and found myself connecting it to my own life. Overall, I got so much more out of this text than others just because of the way I was reading it. I can understand why many people would hate this kind of class structure, especially at our age when we've had a very specific, question/answer based education our whole lives. But I'm curious to know, did anyone get as much out of it as I did?