Talk:Robert Gaudino

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I am going to add some more quotations from the Uncomfortable Learning book. At some point, we should find a way to weave them into the article.

p. 80: If we did not always use the chance for talk efficiently, the opportunity and willingness was there on both sides. The consequence was not harmony, which often is achieved through control and a blunting of critical differences, but a discovery of tensions, conflicting purposes, abrasive styles. The was upsetting and unsettling. But if one is sincere about open dialogue, one must expect lively overt disagreement, some unpleasantness, and perhaps even some hostility. That is the way difference makes its appearance, amid tension and strain which is real, and not artificially induced from the outside.

Strain and discomfort are necessary and inherent to this kind of approach. Not just accidental, not something to be resolved by the right words or correct assurances, but real. The presence of tension and pain is not failure, but success. It is achievement. The conflict and hostilities of opposing understandings is a good part of the objective paid an American will feel in India. These are not differences which can be bargained away by mutual concessions, as much as we might desire this. They are differences of judgment based on identity. They are not negotiated, but understood and lived with. This approach shatters the conventional arrangements and euphemisms by which we usually minimize abrasive differences among ourselves. It requires more effort, energy, essential good will to live with people under such circumstances. Some will never see the sense of it; many will learn but with some misgiving and lack of ease; a few will thrive on it. Nearly all will agree that this mode of personal judgment and confrontation is a most distressing way of learning.

p. 225: It is not work, then, it is not skills, it is not community action, it is not the personal friendship with Indians: none of these alone provides the real significance of the Peace Corps for this volunteer. Rather, it is the education and growth of one's inner self, one's way of responding. It is an education in conflict and tension, made up of constant movements and unsettling oppositions. There's trouble in it, but it perfects the ways of seeing and feeling. It prepares the volunteer to receive and respond to what is outside his background and expectation. It opens new possibilities of experiences.

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