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Samuel Scudder’s Learning to See and Walker Percy’s The Loss of Creature are both essays on how the usual teaching role is limiting learning. Constantly, various forms of media, a regular teacher most are unaware they have, affects how people think and see. Both authors believe many people, as a consequence of media, see incorrectly, in ways that prevent truly seeing. In other words, seeing insufficiently causes misunderstanding, creating inaccurate knowledge, or misinterpretation, or possibly causing knowledge, both inaccurate or true, to be completely unattainable altogether. How to prevent this, realizing the media’s presence, is also given in each essay. One of Percy’s reasons behind poor learning is that people have what he calls “symbolic complexes”, which basically are biases within each of us that are obtained, of course, through media, along with what’s learned through one’s family and friends, experiences, and the locations one has lived in, visited, or passed through. We are often confronted with or persuaded or forced into these biases through various everyday activities that are all types of media, such as television and movies, literature, speech (radio, actual conversation, music), art, and much more. To better explain this, Percy writes about a tourist who visits the Grand Canyon without actually seeing it. The tourist, you see, formed a symbolic complex towards the canyon through media such as travel brochures, textbooks, television, photographs, school, and rumors, opinions, and stories.
Approximate Word count = 896
Approximate Pages = 3.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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