Find your truth in a text. Then earn it.
Mulder and Scully had it wrong.
The truth isn’t ‘out there’. You won’t find ‘the truth’ in Youtube videos, or study guides, or in the classroom.
Mostly because there isn’t one single truth. You make a truth through your close-reading of a text.
In June 2018 I began a series of ‘Forensic’ Friday posts, in which I compared the process to an episode from the X-Files. Looking back, I realise the introduction contains many of the ideas that still shape my teaching today: attention, evidence, curiosity, and the belief that interpretations are earned rather than inherited.
Some old posts feel dated. This one feels like finding an early sketch of a picture I’m still trying to paint.
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