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What is Mimetic Teaching?: A Lost Tools of Writing Excerpt

The following is an edited excerpted from the fifth edition of The Lost Tools of Writing. MIMETIC INSTRUCTION applies the Christian classical idea that humans learn and become virtuous by imitation. However, in classical theory imitation is a far cry from mere aping. Mimesis is an imitation, not of the outward form, but of the

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