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Applied Humanities

Experience and Evidence The Power of Patience 4 Module Four: Examining the Humanities, continued / Page 4.2.3 The Power of Patience On this page: 0 of 3 attempted (0%) | 0 of 2 correct (0%) Objective: Understand why taking the time to slow down can help you appreciate art more.

Imagine a friend of yours says she’s building a new app that’s going to be hugely popular. It focuses on sharing recent news with people. But it slows the news down. Instead of leading with a headline, it’ll start with a puzzle that almost no one will immediately understand. Then it’ll require users to patiently work with each article for a long period of time to understand what’s being conveyed. Sound like a winner?

In our current culture, the idea of slowing down for anything strikes most of us as inconvenient, pointless, and impractical. But what if there are things that can be discovered only with time? And what if those things turn out to be well worth the time it takes to get them? I’m thinking here of the difference between minute rice and a true risotto, the difference between a quick hello and ten years of close friendship. The author of the essay below is saying something like that, only much more artfully.

The Power of Patience: Teaching Students the Value of Deceleration and Immersive Attention

Multiple-Choice Question

Why does the author, Jennifer Roberts, say she has confidence in the power of looking at a piece of art for a long period of time?

Many students have told her they were shocked by what they saw in works they gave more time to. Brief views rarely enable smart comments. It requires her a long time to really appreciate a work. She cites multiple studies showing correlations between comprehension and time spent.

Multiple-Choice Question

Which of the following opinions of time does the author share?

Time always seems to go too quickly. Delays can be helpful in learning, and patience should be taught. Time is constant, but its passage seems to vary substantially. The one thing no one has enough of is time.

Response Board Describe a time when you learned something valuable through lengthy or repetitive study.

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