ABSTRACT
Walking the museum can be done in the way in which some tourists travel significant distances to see what they already knew they would see there: the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, Times Square, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Forbidden City, and so on. The response to authoritarian forms of education, which are not interested in the possibility for students to exist as subjects in their own right, has generally been to do away with position and identity of teacher altogether. David Lines does something similar when he looks at free jazz as a middle ground, that is, free jazz as an 'exercise in grown-up-ness'. To explore the educative quality of the arts in terms of middle ground and the middle-ground-ness of art also implies something about how people look at and understand art. Oblique echoes with what in interview with John Baldacchino is discussed as unlearning. There was no letting go of the responsibility to suspend time and space.
