learning? teaching?

To really gain from an educational, learning encounter, one needs to be in dialogue with the person one is communicating/learning with. Roles may be played (i.e., ‘student’ – ‘teacher’) but whatever the case, it has to be a dialogue, not a sequence of monologs, not bound by fear to a strict set of social protocols, not a call-and-response between priest and supplicant: it has to adapt to the contingency of knowledge differentials between the two. Everyone should be learning within the encounter. At its foundation, it needs to be an open exchange, filling in the open spaces that are hollowed (hallowed!?) by ignorance.