I'm not sure there is anything more humbling than -- while discussing, in a class full of students I love and respect, what the meaning is of individual vocation and how it fits into roles, categories, and changing some of what's wrong with this crazy world -- having one student ask me what my opinion is (I usually try to evade this question) and as I begin to answer, watching a dozen students pick up their pencils to take notes.
I'd better work on living an answer as well as thinking one.
3 comments:
kb - I love the image of living an answer! Students can be a true gift in so many ways....
Happy (almost) Thanksgiving!
Wow, that is a powerful experience...
and some great words about living the answers.
it reminded me of something Kelli once told me once about living the questions. Sometimes we don't have all the answers, but life is in the process. We grow as we keep striving ... and we end up with new questions
I think it's great to tell people answers to things that you believe, for precisely this reason - if you have a conscience, it will make you live up to them. :) Before then it's just an idea in your brain; afterwards it's something you've professed out loud, a tangible thing that must be fulfilled lest you turn into a liar. :)
PS - How is Secundus coming along? :)
Post a Comment