Teaching with Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance has figured prominently in my Rhet. Comp. courses ever since I first started teaching college in 2010.  Chapters 15, 16, 17, and 19 in particular, featuring the narrator's adventures teaching college freshmen English, have felt especially apropos of my students.  I delighted in demonstrating through these chapters that my students already know when their writing is good or bad, even if they can't quite yet articulate why--tha...