{"id":18943,"date":"2013-12-17T23:18:27","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T23:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/harvard-art-historian-jennifer-roberts-teaches-the\/"},"modified":"2013-12-17T23:18:27","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T23:18:27","slug":"harvard-art-historian-jennifer-roberts-teaches-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/harvard-art-historian-jennifer-roberts-teaches-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard art historian Jennifer Roberts teaches the value of immersive attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/harvardmagazine.com\/2013\/11\/the-power-of-patience#.Uq8QPPibUBQ.twitter'>Harvard art historian Jennifer Roberts teaches the value of immersive attention<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/azspot.tumblr.com\/post\/70304185926\">azspot<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>GIVEN ALL THIS, I want to conclude with some thoughts about teaching patience as a strategy. The deliberate engagement of delay should itself be a primary skill that we teach to students. It\u2019s a very old idea that patience leads to skill, of course\u2014but it seems urgent now that we go further than this and think about patience\u00a0<em>itself<\/em>\u00a0as the skill to be learned. Granted\u2014patience might be a pretty hard sell as an educational deliverable. It sounds nostalgic and gratuitously traditional. But I would argue that as the shape of time has changed around it, the meaning of patience today has reversed itself from its original connotations. The virtue of patience was originally associated with forbearance or sufferance. It was about conforming oneself to the need to wait for things. But now that, generally, one need\u00a0<em>not<\/em>\u00a0wait for things, patience becomes an active and positive cognitive state. Where patience once indicated a lack of control, now it is a form of control over the tempo of contemporary life that otherwise controls us. Patience no longer connotes disempowerment\u2014perhaps now patience is power.<\/p>\n<p>If \u201cpatience\u201d sounds too old-fashioned, let\u2019s call it \u201ctime management\u201d or \u201ctemporal intelligence\u201d or \u201cmassive temporal distortion engineering.\u201d Either way, an awareness of time and patience as a productive medium of learning is something that I feel is urgent to model for\u2014and expect of\u2014my students.\u2003\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard art historian Jennifer Roberts teaches the value of immersive attention azspot: GIVEN ALL THIS, I want to conclude with some thoughts about teaching patience as a strategy. The deliberate engagement of delay should itself be a primary skill that we teach to students. 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