A single ant is a solitary ant...it is not even an idea! Take a community of ants and then you have something powerful. The writer Lewis Thomas says something to this effect in his essays "The Lives of a Cell". The entire class was given the option of making groups that would choose one article from the Marg Publication, "2000: The Arts of India". The group members photocopied the chosen article, read and discussed it and made a power-point presentation of all that they had digested. In this manner, the class could gain from the efforts of the others. However, the process deserves scrutiny.
While the class does indeed stand to benefit from the efforts of the other groups, it is pertinent to check how many of the ideas are retained. What does such exposure achieve? On one hand such a process enables a quick bird's eye view of diverse ideas and one hopes that such a view can slowly lead to the development of multiple perspectives. Indeed for such perspectives to gain in depth and understanding, further efforts at an individual level would be necessary.
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