Teaching is a profession of a peculiar kind. It is not only about the transmigration of data from one mind to another, but rather about educating new generations, moulding personalities, thus giving them the basis for future opportunities. If this is the delicate goal to be achieved, upon which criteria teachers ought to be selected?
Here in Italy, for example, it is enough to have a university degree and pass a competitiveexam, where mostly the knowledge of the subject you mean to teach is tested. Then, after a probation year, during which apparently your teaching skills should be carefully verified, but practically nobody cares – unless one day you screw everything up and yield to the impulse of strangling Pietro, who has kept annoying you for an entire semester, thus clearly demonstrating your inaptitude – you become a licensed teacher at last. But is this selecting procedure…
With Christmas we are thresholding Capricorn – the thresher of the Dweller – for the midwinter Solstice came late this year, on the 23rd. This morning in north Somerset the sky is as eggshell crisp and blue over the hills; the sun rose in fiery gold splendour and the parcels were opened. And the light will begin again to grow.
Painting by Jung in “The Red Book” – Jung’s fabulous Odyssey in the Sun-boat
Mac Macartney’s book “The Children’s Fire” deeply touches me in his un-mapping of Wales. Along the numinous borderland of Druidic Albion, through wet leaves, frosty nights and carefully concealed firelight, refuse was chucked at Mac from cars, but also he met the ageless kindness from strangers. Mac’s odyssey towards pre-Roman Anglesey turns my nose and antlers towards the re-wilding movement. In the tiny pockets where this starts…
“To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.” *
Spirit and matter
Is not the beauty of the Christmas spirit a celebration of the birthing of the holy child, the god incarnate? Might this celebration begin anew in every birthing as yet one more infinitesimal experience of the miracle of spirit and matter manifest as one?
“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.” *
Matter and spirit are then the form of manifestation in this earthly dimension. No need to transcend the physical, as if you could outside of death, but more to be present to this eternal now; to experience this unique distinction in style and quality of creation’s possibilities. What we call the physical, necessarily then, is embodied spirit. If, or when we are…
Yes, tonight is another Yalda-Night, the longest night in the year. The Persians celebrate this night as their culture; ( A Person’s culture and nothing to do with the Arabic Islam!) that is an old Persian ceremony.
It has ever always been a family’s ceremony in a completely form; from grandfather-mother to the youngest being.
Anyhow the oldest one of the family; mostly the grand mom, sits at the head of the community (Family) and as “she” scarf the skin of the nuts and pomegranates ( a hard work!) she began to narrate or recount the magnificent fairy tails, and it was always the best of my memories.
The main Mather is not the nuts and not the warm place in which we, all the family, gather together to get warm, it is to spend the longest night together, with having our imaginations circulate and spread. The Fairy-tails are actually real?; “let’s put the question; what is really real!!”
It is surely a fascinating and simultaneously strangest part of the humans being ever. I have a memory, though rather a sad one, of this part of ours, which remind my brother’s sudden illness as they’ve found a tumor in his genius brain in the hospital as they took a probe one day after his paroxysm at home one day, and they said; it must get out!
They got it out and he was getting actually better but as he met his Doc, as regularly visiting; the doctor confessed to him that the human did have never known about this part of itself!
Anyway; I love to find the balance in everything in my life, and why not in the main of us all; the brain 😉
Let’s just to have a look at how the good researchers try to tell us something about it. enjoy 🙂 ❤
We must use both hemispheres to make a balance to understand things better.
The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, better known as the Royal Society for the Arts, and best known simply as the RSA, was founded in 1754. At the time, nobody could have imagined a world in which the people of every land, no matter how far-flung, could hear the same talks by well-known scholars and speakers, let alone see them animated as if on a conference-room whiteboard. Yet even back then, in an era before the invention of animation and whiteboards, let alone computers and the internet, people had an appetite for strong, often counter-intuitive or even contrarian ideas to diagnose and potentially even solve social problems — an appetite for which the RSA Animate series of videos was made.
Economics is another field that has provided the RSA with a surfeit of animatable material — even of the kind “economists don’t want you to see,” as the RSA promotes economist Ha-joon Chang’s talk on “why every single person can and SHOULD get their head around basic economics” and “how easily economic myths and assumptions become gospel.”
As, in essence, an educational enterprise, RSA Animate videos also look into new ways to think about education itself. Educationalist Carol Dweck examines the issues of “why kids say they’re bored at school, or why they stop trying when the work gets harder” by looking at what kind of praise helps young students, and what kind harms them.
Education and creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson explains the need to change our very paradigms of education. And according to the RSA’s speakers, those aren’t the only paradigms we should change: Microsoft Chief Envisioning Officer Dave Coplin argues that we should re-imagine work, and technology critic Evgeny Morozov argues that we should rethink the “cyber-utopianism” that has exposed harmful side-effects of our digital world.
Altogether, we stand,
divided, we fall
WE SURVIVED
Don’t matter who or what you are
When we all eat and sleep on the same dying star
It’s no one else’s business if you’re a believer or you’re not
Face it – this abused planet is all that we’ve got… 🙏💖🙏
Spirit and matter
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