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The Word Imagined

The Word Imagined. Rekindling Vision David I. Smith Kuyers Institute. www.pedagogy.net. A. Close your eyes. Your partner will be told to draw something. After they have seen the instructions you may open your eyes and must guess what they are drawing. B. Draw a teacher.

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The Word Imagined

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  1. The Word Imagined Rekindling Vision David I. Smith Kuyers Institute

  2. www.pedagogy.net

  3. A. Close your eyes. Your partner will be told to draw something. After they have seen the instructions you may open your eyes and must guess what they are drawing. B. Draw a teacher. You may not add any words to your picture, but you may draw objects or background details. Your partner must be able to recognize that what you are drawing is a teacher.

  4. “It has seemed puzzling to me how greatly attached to the Bible you seem to be and yet how much like pagans you handle it… … The great challenge to those of us who wish to take the Bible seriously is to let it teach us its own essential categories; and then for us to think with them, instead of just about them.” Abraham Heschel

  5. Kindergarten Friedrich Froebel (1782 – 1852) J. A. Comenius (1592-1670) The Bible

  6. “God, having created man out of dust, placed him in a Paradise of desire, which he had planted in the East, not only that man might tend it and care for it, but also that he might be a garden of delight for his God….In Paradise each tree was delightful to look at, and more pleasant to enjoy than those which grew throughout the earth. In Paradise was the tree of life. In man was the tree of Immortality itself; that is to say, the wisdom of God, which had planted its eternal roots in man. And so each man is, in truth, a Garden of Delights for his God, as long as he remains in the spot where he has been placed …But alas for our misfortune! …We have been cast out into the deserts of the earth, and have ourselves become wild and horrible wildernesses.”

  7. “God, having created man out of dust, placed him in a Paradise of desire, which he had planted in the East, not only that man might tend it and care for it, but also that he might be a garden of delight for his God….In Paradise each tree was delightful to look at, and more pleasant to enjoy than those which grew throughout the earth. In Paradise was the tree of life. In man was the tree of Immortality itself; that is to say, the wisdom of God, which had planted its eternal roots in man. And so each man is, in truth, a Garden of Delights for his God, as long as he remains in the spot where he has been placed …But alas for our misfortune! …We have been cast out into the deserts of the earth, and have ourselves become wild and horrible wildernesses.”

  8. “The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.” (Genesis 2:15) Augustine: “The Lord God took the man whom he had made and placed him in Paradise to cultivate him (that is, to work in him) and to guard him” Comenius: “It is evident…that even before the Fall, a school in which he might make gradual progress was opened for man in Paradise” “Eden” = delight, desire paradisum voluptatis, Garden of Delights

  9. “I undertook great projects: I built houses for myself and planted vineyards. I made gardens and parks and planted all kinds of fruit trees in them. I made reservoirs to water groves of flourishing trees. I bought male and female slaves and had other slaves who were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me. I amassed silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and provinces. I acquired men and women singers, and a harem as well – the delights of the heart of man. I became greater by far than anyone in Jerusalem before me.” (Ecclesiastes 2:4-9)

  10. The trees of the LORD are well watered…. Psalm 104:16

  11. He is like a tree planted by the streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither Psalm 1:3

  12. Isaiah 5: I will sing for the one I love a song about his vineyard: My loved one had a vineyard on a fertile hillside. He dug it up and cleared it of stones and planted it with the choicest vines. He built a watchtower in it and cut out a winepress as well. Then he looked for a crop of good grapes, but it yielded only bad fruit.

  13. Isaiah 5: “I will take away its hedge, and it will be destroyed; I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled. I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and briers and thorns will grow there. The vineyard of the Lord Almighty is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the garden of his delight. And he looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard cries of distress.”

  14. A learner “is not a block of wood from which you can carve a statue ... he is a living image, shaping, misshaping and reshaping itself.” “…full power of development into full humanity not of one particular person, but of every single individual, young and old, rich and poor, noble and ignoble, men and women – in a word, every being born on earth, with the ultimate aim of providing education to the entire human race regardless of age, class, sex and nationality.”

  15. Piety means “that (after we have thoroughly grasped the conceptions of faith and of religion) our hearts should learn to seek God everywhere…and that when we have found Him we should follow Him, and when we have attained him we should enjoy Him.” “that very sweet delight which arises when a man, who is given over to virtue, rejoices in his own honest disposition, since he sees himself prompt to all things which the order of justice requires.”

  16. “Do thou, everlasting wisdom, who dost play in this world and whose delight is in the sons of men, ensure that we in our turn may now find delight in thee. Discover more fully unto us ways and means to better understanding of thy play with us… …and to more eager pursuance of it with one another, until we ourselves finally play in thy company more effectively to give increasing pleasure unto thee, who art our everlasting delight! Amen.”

  17. “It is desirable…that this hope and longing of creatures should be fulfilled, and that everything everywhere should advance correctly, and that all creatures should have cause to join us in praising God” “the entire world will be a garden of delight for God, for people and for things”

  18. “I was fourteen at the time. It was a Thursday afternoon biology lesson. Our teacher gathered us round the front desk and produced a human brain in a large glass container. He proceeded to point out the various regions of the brain and to explain the functions they were responsible for. His words went over my head. I just sat there wondering what this “person” used to think about and what had happened to all those thoughts now his/her brain was pickled. Thirty five years later I can still see that brain and the faces of the pupils looking at it. I can even visualise the slightly green color it had turned. I can’t remember what else we did in biology that year.”

  19. www.pedagogy.net

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