Building the
Bridge as We Cross It, by
A Review
(email me if you can’t reconstruct these thoughts: charoster@yahoo.com)
Why
isn’t the bridge the way to get our kids safely over the raging river of the
culture of death? How does that image
pull us away from the ‘radical specificity’ that is the key to overcoming the
world?
How
are wonder, hope, poetry and the human person related by ‘betweenness’?
In
what ways do we grow less able to bear our ‘betweenness’?
How
has the human person grown from his pagan days, through the time of the Jews,
to now – the time of the Risen Christ?
How
can you say a person is a place?
What
does it mean that “education is life-to-life transfer of what is real”?
How
is ‘self’ given in the transfer we call education?
What
is alive in you, what has taken shape, what are you passionate about, what do
you want to learn? How do you share
these with your children?
How
do you learn? What hurdles do you face when you try to remember facts or learn
new skills? Is it safe to do what you really, truly want to do?
How
does your leisure and the richness of the culture that is YOU affect your
children?
What
are some of the paradoxes that frustrate us, and how can we think through them
creatively to resolve the tension they create?
What
is the greatest self-education you can pursue?
Why?
What
fears hold you in bondage? How are fear
and freedom related? Are you teaching
fear or trust to your children?
What
are some practical ways to work your continuing education into the fabric of
your life?