In second part of his essay, Percy uses the classroom as an example where sovereignty is lost by the seeker. He maintains that students will learn more efficiently if they experience the subject. For Percy students are unable to enjoy the natural surprise of discovery. Percy talks about a man who find a dogfish on the beach and examines it with his knife and a professor digging through the carcass with a broken fingernail instead of using the tools of laboratory. Teacher's duty should be guide the student into the surprise of discovery, not lesson to teach. Students will be more successful if they see the subject as a discovery not a lesson to learn for good grade.

Percy states, "The highest point, the term of the sightseer's satisfaction, is not the sovereign discovery of the thing before him; it is rather the measuring up of the thing to the preformed symbolic co

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Approximate Word count = 597
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)