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PedagogyDo Students Hear what Professors are Saying?Do Professors Hear what Students are Saying?
Speaking vs. Listening
Margaret A. Goralski, Ph.D.Quinnipiac University, Business
Krystyna Gorniak-Kocikowska, Ph.D.Southern Connecticut State University, Philosophy
God gave us two ears and only one mouth. In view of the way we use these, it is probably a very good thing
that this is not reversed.- Cicero
Today's students listen to iPods,
converse via texting and
smart phone, and oftentimes forego an actual
(physical) conversation to text someone
who is not present.
Speaking vs. Listening This presentation explores whether students
actually listen to what professors are saying –– and also the reverse – whether professors are
listening to students.
Saint Benedict’s Rule for Monasteries begins:
“Listen carefully, my son, to the master’s
instructions, and attend to them with
the ear of your heart.”
Listening is as important a part of
successful communication as
speaking or perhaps even more so,
however, this rarely has a direct impact on
the process of communication.
For Karl Jaspers, German psychiatrist and philosopher, listening was not a primary focus and only became a subject of attention after
World War II when the issue of listening became an
obstacle in his own attempts at communication, for if one will not listen then there is,
in reality, no communication.
According to Gemma Corradi Fiumara, this neglect of listening is due to the dominance of logos in the western intellectual tradition. “Among the widespread meanings of the Greek term ‘logos’ there do not appear to be recognizable references to the notion and capacity of listening; in the tradition of Western thought we are thus faced with a system of knowledge that tends to ignore listening processes” (1990, p. 1).
The will to listen, without which any meaningful communication is all but
impossible, means also a will to think; not just a will to obey or follow
in one’s footsteps.
Close your eyes and picture the blinking light on your phone…
Do you feel anxious?
Impatient?
Tense?