Response to "Take This Fish and Look at It"

 I think Samuel Scudder's purpose for writing this essay was to teach the importance of paying attention to detail and how much you can retain in your brain by writing it down or drawing a picture. The professor that was supposed to be teaching him, instead used the tactic of "looking again" to take in information. Scudder was able to teach himself more than he thought there was to learn just by examining the fish and then drawing pictures and writing down what he saw. The professor never seemed satisfied; if I was in that position I think that I may have given up and not been able to complete the class. My brain would just acknowledge the obvious parts of the fish, it would be very challenging for me to discover the intricate details and parts of the fish. I feel like I would need the teacher there with me and guide me toward what I wasn't seeing, in order to develop that way of thinking. I am not very creative, and it is hard for me to imagine new things. Although this article wasn't overly interesting, I think the message is good and is applicable to real life.