Circling back

I found the history Jessica Helfand presents in "Squaring the Circle" fascinating. The power of an image. The point I saw carrying over into the education and life application section in general was pg 87: "The process of mediating the tension between rational (square) and rotational (circle) - that of imposed order versus natural order - is hardly new." I saw a correlation of that image with much of the discussion we've been having in class thus far: this ambivalence between how we've been teaching in the English classroom with what we want to see happen in there.