Boquet Reading

It's nice reading something besides people's theories or their notions of ideal writing centers. I liked that this article took us through the history of writing centers/labs. With that said, a lot was discussed in this article (including the works of our familiar friends, Cooper, Bruffee, and North) so I'll just mention a couple of points I found interesting.
Boquet frequently notes that there is an "at-odds-ness" in writing centers because of what they are in practice and what they should be ideally. This is also because historically, there has been shifts in the practices of education. Is education learning the rules or is it student's eagerness and empowerment? There seems to be a lot of disagreement between education, writing, and writing centers. Should education/ writing centers work towards standardization or individualism? Writing centers are at odds with themselves because they know what they should be doing, but they also have other aspects to consider (the writing standards).
As a psychology major I took a shine to Boquet's passage on Rogerian nondirective counseling and how writing relates to psychology. This is also why I enjoyed Murphy's article comparing tutors as psychoanalysts. The role of a tutor is to ask the student the kinds of questions that will allow him to find the answers himself. Boquet described it as tutors drawing out knowledge that students already posses. In relation to a therapy session, the therapist never tells his patient what to do, he simply listens and provokes the patient with questions that will challenge that patient to think. I feel like the other authors we have discussed in class brought up this issue,just phrased differently.