I found the following comment by Parker Palmer interesting and unfortunately too often true of biblical and theological studies.
“In conventional education, the classroom is not regarded as
a place to ‘practice’ anything. Practice goes on in the world, and the
classroom is a place set apart. Practice is what students are being prepared
for—it is oriented toward the future. Their preparation consists of absorbing
accumulated knowledge—it is oriented to the past. So the realities that concern
conventional education are 'out there’ in the world, ‘back there’ in the past,
and ‘up there’ in the future. The most neglected reality in education is the
reality of the present moment, of what is happening here and now in the
classroom itself.”
Parker J. Palmer, To Know as We Are Known / A Spiritualityof Education (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 11983), 88.
Parker J. Palmer, To Know as We Are Known / A Spiritualityof Education (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 11983), 88.
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