1. Why does Ishmael send the student away to find his own answers? What does the student mean when he says he wanted to have a teacher for life?
2. Explain the premise of the Taker story that"the world was made for man, and he was meant to rule and conquer it." Why does Ishmael find this premise problematic?
1) Ishmael sends the student away to find his own answers because Ishmael knows that a student does not learn just by listening, they must go out and apply what they have learned to everyday life and think for themselves. This time spent away from Ishmael gives the student more time to think about and ponder a problematic question, thus learning the information the right way. No knowledge is gained without a challenge, Ishmael knows this and that is why he sends his student away, to think for himself and grow in understanding.
When the student says that he wants to have a teacher for life he meant that he wanted a teacher who would give him the supplies to keep gaining knowledge for the rest of his life. The student is the type of person who is not content with the knowledge he already has, but wants to keep learning.
2) Takers believe that the world was made for man, and he was meant to rule and conquer it. The premise of this theory is that after the agricultural revolution, when Takers started to push out the Leavers, us humans believed that the gods created this planet for us and that we should decide how best to go about our business of tending it. In that process, humans have become so ignorant of how to save the world, that we are in fact destroying it.
Ishmael finds this problematic because humans are wiping out not only his species, but all of the world around us. Why did humans take it upon themselves to think the gods put ownership of the world into their hands? Was the world not created for all creatures to live in harmony? The fact that the world was made for man to rule makes all the rest of its inhabitants slaves, or so Ishmael believes.
When the student says that he wants to have a teacher for life he meant that he wanted a teacher who would give him the supplies to keep gaining knowledge for the rest of his life. The student is the type of person who is not content with the knowledge he already has, but wants to keep learning.
2) Takers believe that the world was made for man, and he was meant to rule and conquer it. The premise of this theory is that after the agricultural revolution, when Takers started to push out the Leavers, us humans believed that the gods created this planet for us and that we should decide how best to go about our business of tending it. In that process, humans have become so ignorant of how to save the world, that we are in fact destroying it.
Ishmael finds this problematic because humans are wiping out not only his species, but all of the world around us. Why did humans take it upon themselves to think the gods put ownership of the world into their hands? Was the world not created for all creatures to live in harmony? The fact that the world was made for man to rule makes all the rest of its inhabitants slaves, or so Ishmael believes.
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