Obsessive Idea

Okay, so I'm taking this class: Approaches to the teaching of Writing. (Yea, taking a class. I'm a student/instructor hybrid aka Teaching Assitant/Graduate Teaching Assistant). So, in this class we're reading Facts, Artifacts, and Counterfacts. The theme I immediately pick up on: silence as an instructional tool. Students are not empty vessels to be filled by your knowledge, they need experience, and can only gain experience through you guiding them, but not feeding them the answers. Good idea, ya?

So, take this idea of silence--guidance through silence and then apply it to a student who sees writing as a violent process (not that they would say that) but they hate writing because of how hard it is--never knowing what to write about, what the instructor wants, you just don't sound academic...etc. Do you like the silent treatment being put on you?

I'm in my office trying the my darnest (yes, I said darnest) to remember the National Conversation on Writing website (suprisingly simple, I know) and so I just YouTube it. Now, I tried so many versions of writing, conversation of writing, to find the video. I never did; but I did stumble upon this vid: Violence of Writing and it made me think (which can often be a dangerous activity).... So, what do you think?

Oh, and reading the info provided by the poster, it made me think of the Sapir-Whorf Theory (I had a Rhet/Comp prof teaching me about pedagogies in Compostion and this bad boy came up in discussion--throw this with noobs trying to understand Baudriallard, and yea...) BTW, I know it is a wiki page explaining the Theory...not scholarly journal credible but enough to get an idea across in my little insignificant blog.