WHAT IS TO BE DONE : WHAT CAN WE DO?
Yesterday I enjoyed a wonderful 6 hours with postgraduate students. They worked my poor brain hard and just to "keep up" with younger students is a challenge. But I maybe have learnt a few things with them. Today I reflect.
At the end of those seminar-type meetings the main questions were something like a call for cooperation between generations. The call was also concerned with the basic questions of our time : "What is to be done"? And ; "What can we do together?"
Thinking about that, last night, just before sleep, I realised that I was paid for my work and those students, educating me, were paying.
Indeed what is to be done if we are to work well together!!!!!
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Friday, January 12, 2007
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
EDUCATION and GOOD PARENTING
Yesterday one strong image came to me from the Pond and Yellow Duck ( see links) and I was thrown back into the education of Nobel prize winner Albert Camus. The Duck told how his duckling, after being away on holiday and away from her friends, ran off to the day care centre without even a hug or kiss for father duck. This was said with a clear love and affection. Oh how much that feeling of parents is a wonder of life, a joy. to see the young ones move on ahead without any need for formal politeness.
Albert Camus, on receiving news of his Nobel prize, thought straight back to one of his early school masters, Monsieur Germain, and he wrote a short letter to him. Camus wrote to Louis Germain that : " without you, without the affectionate hand you extended to the small poor child that I was, without your teaching, and your example, none of this would have happened ..."
Monsieur Germaine replied : " ... I do not know how to express the delight you gave me ... If it were possible I would give a great hug to the big boy you have become who for me will always be my little Camus."
Germaine continued : " Before closing I want to tell you how troubled I am, as a secular teacher, by the menacing plots aimed at our schools. I believe that throughout my career I have respected what is most sacred in a child : the right to seek out his own truth ... "
From a beautiful image at the pond through to Camus and his old teacher I was thrown again into contemporary education issues. Such is the beauty of blogs and folk I guess.
Yesterday one strong image came to me from the Pond and Yellow Duck ( see links) and I was thrown back into the education of Nobel prize winner Albert Camus. The Duck told how his duckling, after being away on holiday and away from her friends, ran off to the day care centre without even a hug or kiss for father duck. This was said with a clear love and affection. Oh how much that feeling of parents is a wonder of life, a joy. to see the young ones move on ahead without any need for formal politeness.
Albert Camus, on receiving news of his Nobel prize, thought straight back to one of his early school masters, Monsieur Germain, and he wrote a short letter to him. Camus wrote to Louis Germain that : " without you, without the affectionate hand you extended to the small poor child that I was, without your teaching, and your example, none of this would have happened ..."
Monsieur Germaine replied : " ... I do not know how to express the delight you gave me ... If it were possible I would give a great hug to the big boy you have become who for me will always be my little Camus."
Germaine continued : " Before closing I want to tell you how troubled I am, as a secular teacher, by the menacing plots aimed at our schools. I believe that throughout my career I have respected what is most sacred in a child : the right to seek out his own truth ... "
From a beautiful image at the pond through to Camus and his old teacher I was thrown again into contemporary education issues. Such is the beauty of blogs and folk I guess.
Saturday, December 23, 2006
Celebrations Finn Style
Finland celebrates Xmas mainly on what brits call Christmas Eve. Santa arrives in Finnish homes already one day early from a UK perspective. He has so much work and travel to do you see. Santa actually lives in Korvatuntari which is way up north and close to the Russian border. I hope this satisfies all those questions from the Duck.
As for other questions : Reindeer are often on heat and they are real buggers when in this state. The main problem with this is trying to find a good looking one. As for trying to find an intelligent one forget it. That should satisfy our Antikanter.
Poland, this year, has sent letters to Santa Claus in Finland and many. Never before have Polish folk written so much to Santa. The UK is still the most prominent lot letter writing to Santa although Holland and Germany and France are also heavy writers. If my information is correct there were over 45 million letters this year to Santa and many addressed simply : Santa Claus, Lapland, Finland.
Finland celebrates Xmas mainly on what brits call Christmas Eve. Santa arrives in Finnish homes already one day early from a UK perspective. He has so much work and travel to do you see. Santa actually lives in Korvatuntari which is way up north and close to the Russian border. I hope this satisfies all those questions from the Duck.
As for other questions : Reindeer are often on heat and they are real buggers when in this state. The main problem with this is trying to find a good looking one. As for trying to find an intelligent one forget it. That should satisfy our Antikanter.
Poland, this year, has sent letters to Santa Claus in Finland and many. Never before have Polish folk written so much to Santa. The UK is still the most prominent lot letter writing to Santa although Holland and Germany and France are also heavy writers. If my information is correct there were over 45 million letters this year to Santa and many addressed simply : Santa Claus, Lapland, Finland.
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