Pyrrhonian Pedagogy

The term may be absurd when applied as a term for describing a method for teaching others.  It seems wholly to refer to a method whereby one teaches oneself—if one can imagine an education regimen out of lockstep with commonplace ideas about knowledge, understanding, and learning.

From the outside, Pyrrhonian Pedagogy if applied as a description of a method for teaching others would resemble the proverbial marching of the lemmings over a cliff.  The funny image would not be seen in the tragedy of so many students falling to their bloody deaths but in the facts that, one, the teacher alone would be seen to stop at the top of the cliff and, two, were he asked about the students, the teacher would be wondering what they were doing, and why.  He had walked to the cliff in pursuit of his own pursuit, not to lead others there—in fact, to his recollection, he had never in his life accepted pupils—and he had hardly been aware of them until he stopped at the cliff top and saw them falling so relentless to the rocks below.

If one could resurrect the dead, any random pupil smashed on the rocks below would give as answer for their actions the following:  This is what we thought he meant.

Upon imagining the possibility of resurrection, and thereby imagining the answer given by the random student, the Pyrrhonian might shake his head, turn, and begin to retrace his steps in order see if he can discover why such a misunderstanding occurred.  He might begin to wonder if he had, after all, accidentally accepted pupils at some point in the past.  Unfortunately, no student will be left alive to follow him back to the start; he will find no student left standing somewhere on the path back, of whom he might ask the important questions; and in any case, no student will have actually provided that spectral answer to the imagined question.  (Had not he, the Pyrrhonian will ask himself, merely imagined that answer?)

Presently, the Pyrrhonian will follow a hyperlink to related material, forgetting for an unspecified duration all that had occurred at the top of the cliff.   If he is lucky, he will out-pace those in pursuit—he does not see them—who have in mind his incarceration and punishment for so many tragical conclusions.