What do we do when we raise a child, teach a student, or educate a person as a member of society? For the French philosopher Michel Serres, all of these forms of pedagogy require painful yet exhilarating departures from home and encounters with Otherness.
Like a swimmer who plunges into the river's current to reach the opposite bank, the person who wishes to learn must risk a voyage from the familiar to the strange.
True education, Serres writes, takes place in the fluid middle of this crossi.
University Of Michigan Press The troubadour of knowledge, paperback/michel serres
