Many essays about this course and its approach to learning stress the need to work together. It’s embedded in posts about how we spend each period, implied in extended metaphors about how we learn, and repeatedly referenced in guides to grade abatement.
In the essay below, collegiality and empathy are the backdrop for a discussion of low-information sepsis and herd immunity — extended metaphors about the responsibilities you have to each other. How do we combat ignorance together? What should you do with a peer who “join[s] in on a conversation in a language he has no interest in learning”? Does anyone have the right to refuse to learn?
This writing frames your shared responsibility in a different light. Read the essay carefully, and consider how its message applies to you. Then ask questions and start discussions in the comments.