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Friday 23rd July 2010 @ 12:00 am

 A gentleman with the wonderful name Parker Palmer wrote a book in the 80's called 'To know as we are known' ...

 

So in contrast to the muttin bustin of yesterday - here are some quotes for you to chew over ... the book is a call to get over the modernist frameworks of Truth and recognize truth is a lot closer than you think. Within us - within community - and discoverable only in relationships to each other, God and the world ...

 

... and an education theory to go with that concept ... a good read for those who like such stuff.

 

" To speak this way is to affirm that what happens in the classroom is happening in the world; the way we relate to each other and our subject reflects and shapes the way we conduct our relationships in the world. By this definition of teaching we practice troth (covenantal truth) between knowers and the known in the classroom itself."


“The process and standards  (of teaching) must embrace the rules of logic and evidence while going beyond them to save the best of objectivity, while going beyond them to save the best of subjectivity as well - the sense that we and the world we study are not autonomous 'things' but interdependent beings, subject to truth’s claims.”


And finally - for those reading & thinking ' silly little heretic' ... here a quote by Bonhoeffer;

"Telling the truth ... is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them."

 



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